Historic Photographs of Elberta Project
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History
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During its last big fruit harvest, Elberta was alive with activity.
Its peach crop had developed a well-deserved reputation, and the
demand for its produce had increased. There was a rush of activity
in the packing houses. Over thirty boxcars of fruit, produce from
the area's thousands of trees, were being shipped out daily on the
trunk line of the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad. The local
economy was booming, and it looked as though the development might
finally succeed. This brief boom period was dashed when a freeze in
1925 destroyed the project's peach trees.
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