Difference between revisions of "Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse"

Revision as of 22:15, 10 January 2020

Served by siding south of mainline directly facing Kingsport Station
Located at west end of siding, inside the Kingsport Wye just west of the Kingsport Fruit Company warehouse
Insulated Apple Warehouse
small attached office on northeast corner
Standard 40' x 100' size
Wooden construction
Capacity of 12,000 barrels of apples^[1]

Destroyed by large fire in 1968 which also destroyed the Kingsport Station.^[2]

DAR locomotive No. 470 with Train No. 11 at the Kingsport station, with the the Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse on the far left, circa 1942.
Locomotive 470 at the Kingsport Station with the Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse and the Kingsport Section House, 1946.
Air photo of Kingsport, showing Kingsport's two apple warehouses facing the Kingsport Station in 1945.

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 ===History===
-Destroyed by large fire in 1968 which also destroyed the [[Kingsport Station]].
+Destroyed by large fire in 1968 which also destroyed the [[Kingsport Station]].<ref>[http://www.kingsport.ca/history/history.htm Cora Atkinson, ''A History of Kingsport, Nova Scotia'', "Site of Railway Station and two Warehouses", page. 26]]</ref>
 ==Gallery==
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 ==References and Footnotes==
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 ==External Links==
-*[http://www.kingsport.ca/history/history.htm Cora Atkinson, ''A History of Kingsport, Nova Scotia'', "Site of Railway Station and two Warehouses", page. 26]]
 *[http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=104979005909133144450.00043c4fd963091c925db&ie=UTF8&z=11 Mike's CVR Fruit Warehouses Google Map]]
 [[Category:Apple Warehouses]]