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Orchards at Corwin Farm (2014)

Orchard trees growing within a maintained lawn are a mix of mature trees with high, leafy canopies and young saplings with stakes and fencing.

The Corwin Farm property is located in a rural area along the Delaware River. It preserves an intact portion of the Delaware & Hudson Canal, which operated from 1828 to 1898, and the landscape associated with an adjacent lock. The locktender and family were self-sufficient, so orchards were usually an important aspect of the adjacent landscape. During the period of post-canal development, beginning in the late 1800s, summer visitors arrived in the area by train and supported new industries. Local farmers produced flavorful apples, which gained popularity as more visitors came to the area. The gently sloping and south-facing landform on the east side of the canal would have been ideal for gardens and orchards, although no documentation has been found if they existed there. On the east side of the canal and on either side of the entrance drive are orchard trees that include apples (Malus sp.) and pear (Pyrus sp.), set within maintained lawn. The orchard to the south of the drive has been replanted with young saplings on a 30-foot grid aligned with the drive. The orchard to the north is a mix of mature and young trees in a similar grid spacing pattern, generally aligned with the highway. With the assistance of the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, new orchard trees were propagated from the historic trees at the site. Clippings were harvested and grafted in 2001 to maintain the historic species of apples in the orchards. In the fields east of the canal, the park has pruned existing orchard trees, propagated new orchard trees from the historic trees at the site, and installed new trees, which are not historic but add to the setting of this nineteenth-century vernacular landscape.

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Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, Code: UPDE
Park Cultural Landscapes Program, Code: PCLP

Corwin Farm, Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, Pennsylvania
Latitude: 41.5167694091797, Longitude: -75.0096282958984

Cultural Resources Inventory System-Cultural Landscapes (CRIS-CL) : 300157

Historic Orchards and Fruit Trees

Title: Corwin Farm: Cultural Landscape Inventory
URL: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2227440

2014

2014

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Person: Susan Dolan
Organization: Park Cultural Landscapes Program
Position: Program Manager
Email: susan_dolan@nps.gov

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