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Fading rural towers: From the archives — Grain elevators disappear from the horizon
Author, photojournalist and former Calgary Herald journalist David Bly wrote the historical piece found below in November ...
Almost forgotten Tacoma artist painted the gritty side of city while hiding her gender
A B.L. Hyde painting of Tacoma’s Washington Cooperative Farmers Association grain elevator on the Hylebos Waterway circa 1950 ...
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Memories of a great Albertan
I was offered the position of provincial plant pathologist for Alberta Agriculture by Joe Gurba, head of the crop protection ...
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New York State nominate 24 historic sites for state and national registers
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has nominated 24 properties and districts for ...
Spurred by the ‘oat mafia,’ the familiar grain makes a comeback in Minnesota
By 1950, farmers planted 5 million acres of ... As corn and soybean prices rose, elevators stopped taking train cars of oats.
‘The shock was amazing’: Ogden grain elevator head houses demolished
The two head houses rose up to 185 feet, according to articles from the Ogden Standard-Examiner from 1941, when the facility ...
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'The shock was amazing': Ogden grain elevator head houses demolished
OGDEN — The two head houses serving the old Farmers Grain Cooperative grain elevator in west Ogden have been reduced to rubble, closing the chapter on the facility's history serving northern ...