Culleoka Cantaloupes

Culleoka Cantaloupes is a Tennessee historical marker in Columbia, Maury County.

Corner of Culleoka Highway (TN-373) and Depot Street, Columbia

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Brothers Erastus and Hardy Park, founders of the Culleoka Produce Co., brought prosperity to the farmers of the surrounding area in the early part of the twentieth century in the form of cantaloupes. The founders shipped cantaloupe varieties known as Park's Delight and the Culleoka Queen by rail to distant U.S. markets, where eager customers awaited delivery. Culleoka cantaloupes declined with the death of Erastus Park in 1928, but, at their peak the melons rivaled mules as the county's most famous agricultural product.

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Historical maps covering this location

1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1936 · Campbells Station, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1949 · Campbells Station, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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