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D5210-18
Date(s)
- 1937-08 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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This artistic view of men working in a Roy hop barn was taken in August of 1937. A man in suit and hat, sitting on a burlap sack, watches as three workmen shovel dried hops into sacks and stack them. This 41-acre hop farm belonged to James E. & J.W. Feak. In 1938, they sued the county for over $30,000, claiming that the county's improvements on Lacamas Creek caused the creek to overflow and flood the Feak's croplands. Hops were once a major crop in Pierce County, but weather, insects and downy mildew combined with fluctuating commodities prices to make hops farming a losing proposition in Western Washington. (T. Times 8/30/1938, pg. 1-article)
Hops--Roy--1930-1940; Farming--Roy--1930-1940;