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Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse
Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse
Mile 33.19 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision[1]
History
The Falmouth Fruit Company ws a co-operative of farmers in the Falmouth area who organized to ship apples jointly. They intiially built a large warehouse on the south side of the DAR mainline, west of the Falmouth Station with a capacity of 18,000 apple barrels.[2] Sometime after 1927, they acquired the E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse across from the Falmouth Station on the north side of the tracks. The Falmouth Fruit Company added on to the old Edwards warehouse with an even larger new brick tile warehouse served by a spur at mile 33.19. The manager in its peak years was George Henry Wilson, who later went on to be a prominent Member of the Legislature.[3] After the decline of the apple export industry in the 1940s, the warehouse was used for a variety of commercial and storage uses. Today it serves as a large warehouse for the Avon Valley Floral Company and remains a prominent surviving railway landmark easily spotted from the Highway 101 at Falmouth.
Gallery
RDC No. 9058 or No. 9059 at Falmouth Station with the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, 1959.
Locomotive No. 8133 hauling Train No. 11, passing ruins of Falmouth Station and the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, July 1959.
Falmouth, looking east towards Windsor with the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse to left, July 19, 1975.
The Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse and former E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, with the DAR mainline in Falmouth, June 19, 2011.
Office entrance to the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse in Falmouth, photographed on June 19, 2011 by Dan Conlin.
Loading doors of the old E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, later the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse in Falmouth, June 19, 2011.
E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse in Falmouth with his refrigerator cars Nos. 2500 and 2501 circa 1906 and same location in 2022.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ 1931 Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table - June 21, 1931, page 3
- ↑ [Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927
- ↑ Elliott, Shirley B. The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983 : a biographical directory, Public Archives of Nova Scotia, page 235
