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By Jed Blackwell
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Photo By Jed Blackwell
Henry Gramling of Gramling Farms shows off a can of Gramling peaches. Gramling recalled his family’s canning operations and detailed the peach industry for a Peach History Tour group on Saturday morning.
The millions of peach trees that once produced a riot of pinks and whites along the highways of Spartanburg County are mostly gone now. Gone, too, are the packing sheds that sprung up alongside rail tracks, hustling the peaches on to their destinations in the freshest possible condition. But people who love the tradition of both, and people who want to learn more about the County’s not-so-distant past, are still very present.
Last Saturday morning, two trolleys full of people anxious to learn about the rich peach history of Spartanburg County departed the Hub City Railroad Museum at the old Magnolia Street train station for a two-hour tour through Spartanburg, Inman and Gramling, once the center of the peach trade in the area.
Photo By Jed Blackwell
Six-year-old Benjamin Couch of Moore enjoys a scoop of homemade ice cream at BBB Farms near Inman during Saturday morning’s Peach History Tour.
For the rest of the story, see this week’s Inman Times.
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