Central Santa Clara Fruit Company

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Summary
Business Details
Primary Town Campbell
Primary Business Dried Fruit Packer
Dates 1903-1905

Summary

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Campbell 1904 Campbell Avenue

Former livery stable.

Details

Incorporated July 14, 1903.

Shows up in photo in Campbell: The Orchard City, and referenced elsewhere. (pg 278, 280, 297) Campbell Arcadia book (p.34) shows it as well, with a sign for "C.W. Davison attorney at law" in the office window. A Charles W. Davison was a mayor of San Jose in 1909. CW Davison was 25 in 1900; his father was a farmer on Meridian Road.

Alice Iola O'Hare photograph of Campbell packing house looks like it might be an interior shot (or might be Campbell Fruit Growers' Union)

 1905 Campbell Sanborn map at UCSC 

shows it immediately on corner of Campbell Ave and railroad tracks at South side of the street. Building shows on 1897 Sanborn as former livery stable. 1905 Sanborn shows boiler house behind, oil tank in ground.


Business appears in 1905 list of corporations that have forfeited their right to do business by not paying corporation tax.