the late 19th century, Delaware was king of
peach production, in the United States and the world.
Throughout southern Delaware, towns were born as
farmers planted huge orchards and the railroad pushed
peak in 1875, nearly six million bushels of Delaware
peaches were shipped to market.
By 1900, however,
production outpaced the distributors' ability to
of Delaware's peach past, pits and all, on the next
Delaware Portrait in Time.