calsfoundation@cals.org
March 7, 2009
Strawberries were first commercially grown in Arkansas in White County in the early 1870s. The profitability of the fruit, combined with railroad shipping, led many communities in the Ozarks, such as Marshall (Searcy County), to grow strawberries. Shown here is a Marshall strawberry field being hand picked by a small group of workers in the mid-1960s.