210 Main Street, Marrick, in the old post office.

Call 555-0142

The collection: The Kitchen Table

An apple crate label with a red apple, the lake and orchard hills, reading Bench Orchards, Marrick.

Bench Orchards crate label

Acc. 1995.031.1

The Kitchen Table · upstairs

The orchard shipped as far as the coast.

Printed in 1931 for Bench Orchards, the Sorensen family's farm above town.

The families in this story.

In the archives

  • 1931 · photo

    Marrick School, Grades 3 and 4

    Eighteen children and Miss Carrow. Eight faces still unnamed.

  • 1904 to 1988 · family file

    The Sorensen family file

    Bench Orchards land records, letters and crate labels.

Come see the originals.

It's in The Kitchen Table, upstairs, with the lift at the back of the counter hall. Ask at the counter and we'll tell you more about it.

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