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Applecrest Farm Orchards (also known as Applecrest Orchards or simply Applecrest) is a year-round apple orchard in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.It is considered the oldest and largest apple orchard in the state of New Hampshire [1] and the oldest continuously operated apple orchard in the United States, [citation needed] having opened in 1913.
This MA family-run farm, which grows over 50 varieties of apples, is one of the top apple orchards in the country, according to USA Today poll.
Fishkill Farms is currently an apple orchard and small-scale business, one of the Hudson Valley's oldest apple orchards. In a May 6, 1914 letter to his father, Henry Morgenthau, Sr. , who was serving as Ambassador to Turkey in the Wilson administration, Morgenthau wrote, "I have undertaken to set out 1,400 fruit trees (apple trees) which cover ...
The Lost Apple Project is a nonprofit organization that searches abandoned farms and orchards in the Pacific Northwest to locate old apple varieties that have been thought to be lost or extinct. At one time, there were approximately 17,000 named varieties of domesticated apples in the United States, but only about 4,500 are known to exist today.
The 'Roxbury Russet' is an apple cultivar, believed to be the oldest apple cultivar bred in the United States, having first been discovered and named in the mid-17th century in the former Town of Roxbury, part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony southwest of (now part of) Boston. [1]
Piper Orchard, the oldest orchard in Seattle, is located in Carkeek Park and features primarily heirloom apple trees. It was established in the late 19th century by A. W. Piper, a local confectioner and member of the Seattle City Council, following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. The orchard was a key part of the Piper family's homestead, which ...
In this list, we'll run through the oldest American general stores still in operation in chronological order. From shops that opened over one hundred years ago to one that dates back to the 1790s ...
Find out which American Companies have been around the longest. From John Deere and Jack Daniel's to Coca-Coal and Carhartt, these are some of the oldest companies in America, some of which are ...