John Harlow, one of the early white settlers in Mesa County, first planted fruit trees in 1882 at his farm at Rapid Creek, a few miles from what is now…
Sources: Colorado Newsline (nonprofit statehouse newsroom)
Fifty for 150: First peach trees planted on Western Slope of Colorado in 1882
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