Californias Citrus Heritage

Author : Benjamin T. Jenkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467107670
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California's Citrus Heritage written by Benjamin T. Jenkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first appearance of oranges at the Franciscan missions in the early 19th century, citrus agriculture has been an inextricable part of California's heritage. From the 1870s to the 1960s, oranges and lemons were dominant features of the Southern California landscape. The Washington navel orange, introduced by homesteader Eliza Tibbets at Riverside in the 1870s, precipitated the rise of a citrus belt stretching from Pasadena (in the San Gabriel Valley) to Redlands (in San Bernardino County). Valencia oranges dominated Orange County south of Los Angeles, while lemons thrived in coastal settlements such as Santa Paula. With the arrival of transcontinental railroads in the citrus heartland by the 1880s, Californians had access to markets across the United States. This was followed by the subsequent establishment of an impressive central organization in the form of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, and oranges became the state's most lucrative crop. Observers did not exaggerate when they dubbed the southern portion of the Golden State an orange empire.

Author : California. State Board of Horticulture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture of the Citrus in California written by California. State Board of Horticulture and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard H. Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966950847
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citrus Powered the Economy of Orange County for Over a Half Century Induced by a Romance written by Richard H. Barker and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CITRUS POWERED THE ECONOMY OF ORANGE COUNTY FOR OVER A HALF CENTURY INDUCED BY "A ROMAMCE" [California] An Illustrated, Compelling History...

Author : Esther Klotz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Citrus in the Riverside Area written by Esther Klotz and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, development and practices of the citrus industry in the Riverside district.

Author : California Citrus Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the California Citrus Institute written by California Citrus Institute and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin T. Jenkins
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700634711
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Octopus's Garden written by Benjamin T. Jenkins and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Southern California recovered from the collapse of the cattle industry in the 1860s, the arrival of railroads—attacked by newspapers as the greedy “octopus”—and the expansion of citrus agriculture transformed the struggling region into a vast, idealized, and prosperous garden. New groves of the latest citrus varieties and new towns like Riverside quickly grew directly along the tracks of transcontinental railroads. The influx of capital, industrial technology, and workers, especially people of color, energized Southern California and tied it more closely to the economy and culture of the United States than ever before. Benjamin Jenkins’s Octopus’s Garden argues that citrus agriculture and railroads together shaped the economy, landscape, labor systems, and popular image of Southern California. Orange and lemon growing boomed in the 1870s and 1880s while railroads linked the region to markets across North America and ended centuries of geographic isolation for the West Coast. Railroads competed over the shipment of citrus fruits from multiple counties engulfed by the orange empire, resulting in an extensive rail network that generated lucrative returns for grove owners and railroad businessmen in Southern California from the 1890s to the 1950s. While investment from white Americans, particularly wealthy New Englanders, formed the financial backbone of the Octopus’s Garden, citrus and railroads would not have thrived in Southern California without the labor of people of color. Many workers of color took advantage of the commercial developments offered by railroads and citrus to economically advance their families and communities; however, these people also suffered greatly under the constant realities of bodily harm, low wages, and political and social exclusion. Promoters of the railroads and citrus cooperatives touted California as paradise for white Americans and minimized the roles of non-white laborers by stereotyping them in advertisements and publications. These practices fostered conceptions of California’s racial hierarchy by praising privileged whites and maligning the workers who made them prosper. The Octopus’s Garden continues to shape Southern Californians’ understanding of their past. In bringing together multiple storylines, Jenkins provides a complex and fresh perspective on the impact of citrus agriculturalists and railroad companies in Southern Californian history.

Author : California. State Commissi Horticulture
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781313198684
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Citrus Culture written by California. State Commissi Horticulture and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Rahno Mabel MacCurdy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the California Fruit Growers Exchange written by Rahno Mabel MacCurdy and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : California. State Commission of Horticulture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Citrus Culture written by California. State Commission of Horticulture and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert John 1842-1916 Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781360608099
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CALIFORNIA CITRUS CULTURE written by Albert John 1842-1916 Cook and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: