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| − | E.E. Armstrong built a brick fruit warehouse at [[Falmouth]] in 1906, across from the [[Falmouth Station]]. It was later joined together with | + | E.E. Armstrong built a brick fruit warehouse at [[Falmouth]] in 1906, across from the [[Falmouth Station]]. It was later lengthened with a third loading door and then joined together with an even larger new brick tile warehouse built by the Falmouth Fruit Company and served by a spur at mile 33.19. The manager in its peak years was George Henry Wilson, who later went on to be a prominent Member of the Legislature.<ref>[http://0-nsleg-edeposit.gov.ns.ca.legcat.gov.ns.ca/deposit/b10537582.pdf Elliott, Shirley B. ''The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983 : a biographical directory'', Public Archives of Nova Scotia, page 235]</ref> After the decline of the apple export industry in the 1940s, the warehouse was used for a variety of commercial and storage uses. Today it serves as a large warehouse for the Avon Valley Floral Company and remains a prominent surviving railway landmark easily spotted from the Highway 101 at Falmouth. |
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Revision as of 09:48, 13 July 2019
Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse
Mile 33.19 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision[1]
History
E.E. Armstrong built a brick fruit warehouse at Falmouth in 1906, across from the Falmouth Station. It was later lengthened with a third loading door and then joined together with an even larger new brick tile warehouse built by the Falmouth Fruit Company and served by a spur at mile 33.19. The manager in its peak years was George Henry Wilson, who later went on to be a prominent Member of the Legislature.[2] After the decline of the apple export industry in the 1940s, the warehouse was used for a variety of commercial and storage uses. Today it serves as a large warehouse for the Avon Valley Floral Company and remains a prominent surviving railway landmark easily spotted from the Highway 101 at Falmouth.
Gallery
Falmouth Station with Windsor in background and new E.E Armstrong Warehouse, 1906.
E.E Armstrong Warehouse in Falmouth, circa 1910.
RDC No. 9058 or No. 9059 at Falmouth Station with the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, 1959.
Locomotive No. 8133 hauling Train No. 11, passing ruins of Falmouth Station and the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, July 1959.
Falmouth, looking east towards Windsor with the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse to left, July 19, 1975.
The Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse and former E.E. Thompson warehouse, with the DAR mainline in Falmouth, June 19, 2011.
Office entrance to the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse in Falmouth, photographed on June 19, 2011 by Dan Conlin.
Loading doors of the old E.E. Armstrong warehouse, later the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse in Falmouth, June 19, 2011.
