Bob Henderson
Haines miner Fred Meyer grew a field full of cabbages where a gas station stands today on Second Avenue. At the site of the Department of Transportation barn on Main Street, Henry Vermiere drained five acres of swampland to raise vegetables he sold around town, including celery.
During the Prohibition, drinkers tapped cider from George De Blondeau’s apple orchard at 2 Mile, and farmers bought hay grown at Mud Bay,…