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T. K. Cellar
Presents the Brown Fruit Farm |
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Frame and Marie Brown
on the Brown Fruit Farm.
The Browns moved into the farmhouse
in 1913, the same year that their daughter Molly was
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This photograph from
www.WorthingtonMemory.org |
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| T. K. Cellar will present the program
"Brown Fruit Farm" to the Big Walnut Area Society at
7:30 Tuesday, July 10 in the Myers Inn Museum Meeting
Room. "My grandfather, Murrin Cellar, was the farm
foreman, and my father grew up there. The farm closed
around 1956 after a killer frost," explained T. K. The
Brown Fruit Farm operated on Route 23 north of
Worthington for nearly fifty years, from around 1912 to
1958.
The farm’s original apple orchards were planted
around 1901, by Frank Bower, on property once owned by
the Pool family. Sally and Joseph Pool came to Sharon
Township in 1812, and built the house that the Browns
lived in. The Pool family gravestones have been
incorporated into a restored cemetery at Highbanks Metro
Park. Bower sold the orchards to William C. Brown
in 1909, who few years later turned the property over to
his son, Frame. |
| Third from the right
is Frame C. Brown.
Fourth from the left is Herman
Wagner, the father of Leona Wagner who would marry
Murrin Cellar and become T. K. Cellar's grandparents. |
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This photograph from
www.WorthingtonMemory.org
The original is in a private collection. |
The farm grew and sold apples and apple products
such as juice, candy and apple butter, as well
as cherries, plums and honey. As of 1925, the
farm encompassed 100 acres planted with 4000
fruit trees and was the largest fruit farm in
central Ohio. It was renowned not only for the
quality of its produce, but also for its
innovative roadside marketing, including signs
telling motorists how many miles they were from
the farm. Frame and Marie Brown both passed away
in 1936, when Molly Brown took over ownership of
the farm, which operated until 1958.
"When
my four siblings and I had to move our parents
to a nursing home, we found what I call a
“treasure trove” of scrapbooks, newspaper
articles and pictures of the farm and the folks
who worked and lived there. It seemed fitting to
put together a presentation to save the memory
of this once popular spot, now completely gone
except for the memories of a few," noted Cellar.
This presentation is open to the public.
There is no admission fee.
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