 | | 2020-02-06 21:29
From blog Atomic Redhead
Tracing California’s Orange Roots at the Citrus State Historic Park
The orange is one of the most iconic things about California. Southern California’s climate makes it a perfect place to grow citrus, and thanks to advances in irrigation, processing, transportation, and the addition of the Washington navel orange, California’s citrus industry boomed in the late 1800s, as oranges and their citrus cousins made for California’s “second gold rush.” While the orange is still big business here, “orange groves as far as the eye can see” as L.A. Confidential hailed, are a thing of the past, unless you find your way to the California Citrus State Historic Park .
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