Capitol Reef Cultural Landscape Report

VEGETATION RELATED TO LAND USE (continued)
(Orchard Summaries)

Current Name: Max Krueger Orchard

Other Name(s): North Lower Krueger Orchard

Park Code: 0-10

Location: Approximately 1.3 miles east of the visitor center on north side of Utah State Route 24.

Tract: 9

Acres Cultivated:

Number of Trees: 384 (approximate)

Date Recorded: August 1991. March 1993 (field checked)

Max Krueger Orchard

Historical Documentation:

This land was originally part of the Leo Holt homestead of 120 acres. 'Tine Oyler owned the land from 1916 until 1941. Most of the orchard was planted in 1935. Max Krueger purchased the land in 1941. [31] Seven acres of land were reported in orchard at the end of the historic period. Approximately 2 acres of this land was abandoned due to the repeated flooding of the Fremont (the floods of 1945 and 1949). Almost a full acre was lost and due to construction of the State Highway 24 in 1962. A dozen new apple trees were added in 1964 and 130 peach trees were put in 1979. The orchard once located south of the highway was referred to as the South Lower Krueger Orchard.

Historic Crops:

Apple (128)
Apricot (49)
Peach (49)
Cherry (5)
Walnut (1)

Current Crops:

Apple (65)
Yellow Delicious
Red Delicious
Jonathan "cooking"
Apricot (14-+)
Peach (303)
Rosa
Garnett
Early Red Haven "late"
Plum (2)