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Apple Harvest is here again, o The honeybees in late April when S they gathered nectar from the blossoms were no busier than < folks are now gathering the ripe fruit. And nowhere is there more ; activity than at the i Rappahannock Cold Storage at j Sperryville, the foothills of the < Blue Ridge Mountains near scenic < Skyline Drive. The plant is in its | 32nd year of operation - packing, | storing and shipping apples grown | by a number of local orchardists. This is Rappahannock County’s oldest big industry. They employ , about twenty-five people, process , about 125,000 bushels a year and ; handle more than one half million ' dollars a year. In 32 seasons they have processed almost 3 million bushels of apples at a value of about $8 million.
The Rappahannock Cooperative Fruit Growers was organized in 1936 and started packing in the fall of 1937. It became the first to receive charter in Rappahannock. Two years later the Rappahannock Cold Storage Cooperative, Inc. received a charter. The original officers were: President - B. J. Wood of Flint Hill; Vice-President - C. E. Johnson, Jr. of Sperryville; Secretary-Treasurer - James H. Fletcher of Sperryville. Additional directors were R. W. Miller of Hawlin, J. Frank Jones
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