A Brief History of Texas Oranges
A Brief History of Texas Oranges - a Pittman & Davis blog
The orange was brought to Texas sometime in the late nineteen century by traveling Spanish missionaries. It was distributed to farmers along with grapefruit ...
The History of Texas Oranges - Pittman & Davis
But it wasn't until the early nineteenth century that the commercial orange industry got up and running. Years later, the orange was introduced to Texas.
Citrus Fruit Culture - Texas State Historical Association
Citrus fruit growing in Texas was probably begun by Spaniards who in the eighteenth century planted seven orange trees on the Laguna Seca Ranch.
Texas Sweet Oranges Information and Facts - Specialty Produce
Oranges were first recorded in Texas in the 1880s at Laguna Seca Ranch in Hidalgo County, located within the Lower Rio Grande Valley, a region in Southern Texas ...
The Texas Citrus Industry - Texas A&M University
The earliest record of citrus in the Lower Rio Grande Valley was seedling orange trees planted by Don Macedonio Vela at the Laguna Seca Ranch in ...
The Quirky History of the Osage Orange, Texas's Ugliest Fruit
The wood's durability and flexibility allows it to bend and absorb shock without breaking, making it ideal for bow making. This led French ...
The area's first known inhabitants were the Atakapas Indians, who arrived in the area around the year 1600. They lived mostly on seafood and wild game and ...
Citrus History in the Borderlands Newspaper Collection | News
South Texas has been famous as a center of citrus production since the early 20th-century. From TexSun orange juice in Weslaco to Rio Grande ...
Throwback Thursday: History of Citrus in the Rio Grande Valley
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – There was quite a buzz in the Rio Grande Valley in the 1920's and it concerned citrus. Citrus was in existence in the ...
A Brief History of the Navel Orange - Hale Groves
In 1909, the orange blossom was officially designated the State flower of Florida. The trees on which the flowers grow were first planted in ...
Texas History 101: January 2002
Seedling orange trees were planted by Don Macedonio Vela at the Laguna Seca Ranch in 1882, the earliest record of citrus in the Valley. But orchards planted on ...
Citrus | Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service – District 12
Orchards were established along the Texas Gulf Coast in the 1880's. The earliest record of citrus in the Lower Rio Grande Valley was seedling orange trees ...
Texas Citrus Fiesta | City of Mission
They saw the celebration as a way to spread the word about the bountiful winter harvest of grapefruits and oranges from the lush, subtropical Rio Grande Valley.
OUR HISTORY - THE TEXAS CITRUS INDUSTRY
The first reported planting of a grove in Texas was 1893. Initial grapefruit plantings in Texas were the white varieties, followed by pink varieties.
Blood Oranges: Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas ...
While readers must wait until the latter part of the book to read about Mexican- origin community activism, Bowman deserves credit for other things that his ...
Blood Oranges: Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas ...
With the 1904 arrival of the railroad from Brownsville west along the valley, however, citrus agriculture took on new importance, drawing in ...
How Sweet It Is! - Texas Highways
Other farmers followed with more grapefruit and orange trees, until the Valley's citrus crop peaked in the 1940s with more than 100,000 acres in production. A ...
History of Navel Orange Trees - Hale Groves
In 1873 a Riverside orange grower obtained one seedling from the Department of Agriculture, producing the first navel oranges in the United States in 1878.
A History of Orange - The Portal to Texas History
This book explores the history of Orange, Texas through the eyes of Robert E. Russell. Spanning large parts of the nineteenth century, ...
History of Gulf Coast Citrus in - ASHS Journals
Satsumas, and sweet oranges to a lesser extent, were extensively planted along the northern Gulf Coast section of Texas in the early 1900s, ...