Central Santa Clara Fruit Company

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Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

Campbell
Active

1903-1905

The Central Santa Clara Fruit Company was a dried fruit packer in Cambell, California. The company purchased the building and machinery for the Luehning Company's plant in Campbell in 1903[1].

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Campbell 1904 Campbell Avenue

Former livery stable, formery occupied by Ernest Luehning Company.

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.

  1. Ready For Business: July 24, 1903 San Jose Evening News: "The Central Santa Clara Packing Company of Campbell has purchased the up-to-date equipment of the Ernest Luehning Packing House at Campbell and is now prepared for business at the building formerly occupied by the Luehning Company, opposite the Ainsley Cannery".