By Dena Martin
The Times
Apple Detective Asks For Help
David Benscoter is seeking information on Columbian, Taggard, and Dickinson orchards
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August 31, 2017
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David Benscoter sits among the apple trees on Steptoe Butte. He will make a visit to Waitsburg at the end of September.
WAITSBURG – "Apple Detective" David Benscoter will visit Waitsburg on Sat. Sept. 30 and is looking for some help in learning the location of the Columbian Orchards and Nursery (Babcock Orchard) and the Taggard and Dickinson orchards prior to his visit. The Columbian Orchards grew a variety of apple that Benscoter has been searching for.
Hockersmith and Benscoter have pieced together some information on the Columbian Orchard. The owner, Col. E.F. Babcock was born in New York on Jan. 8, 1831 and died in Orting, Wash. on June 17, 1996. He was an orchardist and nurseryman in Tennessee and Ar...
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