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Founded in 1912.  Became Plant #2 for Sunsweet.
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The '''Morgan Hill Farmer's Union''' was a grower's dried fruit cooperative founded in 1912.  The union merged into the [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] in 1918, and became Plant #2 for Sunsweet.
  
 
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==Photos==
 
==Photos==
Photos of the front and back in Arcadia's Morgan Hill book<ref>U.R. Sharma, [http://books.google.com/books?id=4Z6Qc0pBclkC&lpg=PA55&ots=ViYSJfB_zB&dq=morgan%20hill%20farmers%20union&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q=morgan%20hill%20farmers%20union&f=false Morgan Hill], Arcadia Publishing, 200x.
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Photos of the front and back in Arcadia's Morgan Hill book<ref>U.R. Sharma, [http://books.google.com/books?id=4Z6Qc0pBclkC&lpg=PA55&ots=ViYSJfB_zB&dq=morgan%20hill%20farmers%20union&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q=morgan%20hill%20farmers%20union&f=false Morgan Hill], Arcadia Publishing, 200x.</ref>
 
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Latest revision as of 19:01, 7 July 2015

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative
Main Location

Morgan Hill

The Morgan Hill Farmer's Union was a grower's dried fruit cooperative founded in 1912. The union merged into the California Prune and Apricot Growers in 1918, and became Plant #2 for Sunsweet.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Morgan Hill 1912-1917 Fourth and Depot Street Near Sunsweet on Third Street.

Photos

Photos of the front and back in Arcadia's Morgan Hill book[1]

References

  1. U.R. Sharma, Morgan Hill, Arcadia Publishing, 200x.