Keith 1913 Album of Deer Park and the Arcadia Orchard project.
(Please click on each photo for an enhanced version)
Arcadia Orchard Company President E. N. Robinson’s house at 1302 E. Crawford under construction in 1913.
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The Great Northern railroad’s station and water tower just west of the Kelly building and north of
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Deer Park’s second elementary school at Fourth and Main Streets.
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Deer Park’s first high school built in 1911 at East 316 Crawford Street.
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A group of unidentified people in front of the Arcadia Inn in addition to the Olson Hotel at the corner of Main and Crawford Streets.
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Unidentified people in front of the Arcadia Inn in addition to the Olson Hotel at the corner of Main and Crawford Streets.
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Originally the A.R. Carothers house which later became the O.G. Folevaag house at 702 E. A Street. Carothers was a supervisor in the Arcadia Orchards Company.
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The Evan Enoch house at 12 West Sixth Street. Enoch was a banker.
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The Open Door Congregational Church at 205 North Main Street. It was built in 1896 and remodeled in 1908.
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Two-year old apple trees somewhere in the Arcadia Orchards.
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The Kelly business block at the northwest corner of Main and Crawford streets. First story was built in 1903 and the second story was added before 1908.
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The “Bull Chain” at W.H. Short’s 1911 sawmill built on the east shore of Arcadia Orchard’s Dragoon Lake.
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View of W.H. Short’s 1911 sawmill.
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The green chain being roofed at W.H. Short’s sawmill.
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Arcadia Orchard Company’s construction camp #1 east of Denison, Washington.
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Arcadia Orchard Company’s construction camp #2 east of Deer Park, Washington.
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E.N. Robinson, President of the Arcadia Orchards Company and the E.G Carey group touring the orchards. Note the right side steering wheel.
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Wheat shocks between rows of newly planted apple trees in the Arcadia Orchards.
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Uncertain where this house is.
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Photograph is labeled “Brick’s Barn”. The location and owner are unknown but background trees indicate that this is in a flat orchard area.
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Uncertain where this house is.
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Leghorn chickens in a field possibly near one of the chicken growing operations east of Deer Park.
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Large wire bound wooden stave flume distributing water to the Arcadia Orchards.
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Timber trestle flume carrying water to the Arcadia Orchards.
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Newly cleared land being prepared for orchard planting. Trees in the background show the nature of logged off land purchased for the orchard.
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Row of young trees flanked by wheat being grown to supplement orchard income.
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Two-year old apple trees with an elevated wooden water distribution flume in the background.
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Another view of two-year old apple trees with an elevated wooden water flume in the background.
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Washington State College (Now WSU) horticulturist, and Arcadia Orchard Company employee, Albert G. Craig near young apple trees and wheat being grown to supplement orchard income.
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One-year old apple trees near immature wheat.
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Two-year old apple trees with a horse drawn cultivator behind the row.
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Horticulturist Albert G. Craig standing near wheat almost as tall as he is.
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Potatoes being grown between rows of three-year old apple trees. The house and location are unknown.
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Caption indicates “Cordina poplars and three -year old trees”. There is no information about these trees being grown in the Arcadia Orchards.
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Another picture of three-year old apple trees with potatoes being grown between tree rows.
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Four-year old apple trees. The crop between the tree rows might be potatoes or peas as both were being grown as income supplements to the orchard.
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Albert Craig, a one time WSC Professor, wrote many articles in the Deer Park Union on apple growing.
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Two story house in Opportunity, Washington in Spokane Valley, possibly where railroad builder Danial Corbin established apple orchards.
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Uncertain where this house is.
Possibly the Opportunity, Washington couple who owned the two story house in the last picture in their mature orchard.
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A colorized postcard of picking apples in an unidentified Washington apple orchard.
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Apparently a picture of the Spokane River falls.
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