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The Oliver Nursery was operated by brothers Tom and Charles Oliver. The Oliver Nursery grew seedlings for root stock used for grafting and budding of different fruit varieties. The brothers also raised general farm crops and livestock. They processed the seedlings and shipped most of them to other nurseries in Iowa. This was a large business employing many people. Mr. Henry Martin, Walter Patton, and Louis Burns were foremen for the firm. The nursery ceased operation during the 1930s. This photograph is provided through a pilot project to host unique cultural heritage materials from local libraries on Kansas Memory and was accomplished by mutual agreement between the Northeast Kansas Library System, the Rossville Community Library, and the Kansas Historical Society.
Date: Between 1900 and 1935
Item Number: 99813
Call Number: Business/Industry-RCL0113
Holding Institution: Rossville Community Library
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Agriculture
Built Environment - Function - Agriculture/Subsistence - Horticultural Facility
Business and Industry - Retail - Nurseries and greenhouses
Collections - Contributing Institutions - Rossville Community Library
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Rossville
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Photographs
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