Japanese Produce Farming

ID: 4337 ~ Source: "Japanese Dominate Produce Farms in Spokane District." Spokane Daily Chronicle. August 20, 1947. Google News Archive.
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By 1947, nearly 90% of the produce farmed in Spokane, was controlled by Japanese-Americans. Many of these farms were small truck farms located in Bigelow Gulch, Vinegar Flats, and the Spokane Valley.

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By Anna Harbine
In the first half of the twentieth century small Japanese farms peppered the outskirts of the city. The produce from their farms in Bigelow Gulch, Nine Mile Falls, Spokane Valley, and Latah Creek…