E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse

Edward E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse Falmouth

(Later incorporated into the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse)

• Brick Construction
• Capacity (1927): 7,500 Apple Barrels
• Track Location:North Side of Tracks on spur, westward faing switch

History

Edward E. Armstrong was from a long-established family of farmers in the Falmouth area. He was an early investor in expanding the apple industry. He built a brick fruit warehouse at Falmouth in 1906, across from the Falmouth Station. Armstrong built and owned a pair of 37-foot refrigerator cars intended for fruit and dairy service in 1906. They were built at Rhodes, Curry & Co. in Amherst. Each had a 60,000 pound capacity and were painted light blue and lettered for the "Armstrong Refrigerator Line" on one end with a diamond shield and "Owned by E.E. Armstrong, Falmouth N.S." lettered on the other.

Armstrong's warehouse was later lengthened with a third loading door. His warehouse was later bought by the Falmouth Fruit Company who added to it and joined it together with an even larger new brick tile warehouse. The original Edwards brick warehouse survives today, as part of a large warehouse for the Avon Valley Floral Company, a prominent surviving railway landmark easily spotted from the Highway 101 at Falmouth.

Gallery

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  Photograph of a custom refrigerator car made for Edward E. Armstrong, circa 1905.

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  Falmouth Station with Windsor in background and new E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, 1906.

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  E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse in Falmouth, circa 1910.

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  Locomotive No. 8133 and Train No. 11, passing ruins of Falmouth Station and the E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, now made part of the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, July 1959.

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  Loading doors of the old E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, later the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse in Falmouth, June 19, 2011.

External Links

Avon Valley Floral company, current owners