Cross Orchards Historic Site is a living history museum in Grand Junction, Colorado, operated as part of the Museums of Western Colorado and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It preserves turn-of-the-twentieth-century agricultural buildings, including a workers bunkhouse and a blacksmith shop, on a 24-acre property that at its peak supported an apple orchard of 243 acres and about 22,000 trees, then the largest orchard operation in western Colorado. The site also displays rolling stock from the Uintah Railway and continues to run as a working farm demonstrating historic practices such as traditional apple cider production. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own accountMesa County, United States 2 Classification
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1. Cross Orchards Historic Site (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Orchards_Historic_Site, lead definition
Cross Orchards Historic Site is a living history museum located in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Cross Orchards Historic Site is a living history museum in Grand Junction, Colorado, operated as part of the Museums of Western Colorado and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It preserves turn-of-the-twentieth-century agricultural buildings, including a workers bunkhouse and a blacksmith shop, on a 24-acre property that at its peak supported an apple orchard of 243 acres and about 22,000 trees, then the largest orchard operation in western Colorado. The site also displays rolling stock from the Uintah Railway and continues to run as a working farm demonstrating historic practices such as traditional apple cider production.
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Museum)
Cross Orchards Historic Site is a living history museum located in Grand Junction, Colorado. It is part of the Museums of Western Colorado. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Orchards are known for showing how life was on an orchard at the turn of the twentieth century and is considered living history as it is still worked and cultivated regularly. It features a
View the Source2. Cross Orchards Historic Site (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Mesa County, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Mesa County, United States
Wikidata item Q5188370, property P131/P17 (location): Mesa County, United States
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