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Processing/Shipping The Benton Harbor Fruit Market depended on many forms of transportation. Fruit needed to be transported from farms to the market, then from the market to the buyer. The mode of transportation varied from wagons and trucks to railcars and barges. All moving Southwest Michigan's bounty. |
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Principal area of distribution for produce bought at the Benton Harbor Market, 1960. (source: The Benton Harbor Michigan Fruit Market Present and Proposed Facilities, U.S.D.A.) |
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Fruit wasn't the only commodity transported in the Southwest Michigan Fruit Belt. Great Lake Cruise Lines like the Goodrich Steamship Lines, promoted the St. Joseph and Benton Harbor region as the "Land of Fruit and Flowers." |
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