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W.V. McGalliard Houses/Real Estate Stationary Trenton NJ White Horse Station For Sale
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W.V. McGalliard Houses/Real Estate Stationary Trenton NJ White Horse Station:
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W. V. McGalliard sowed the seeds of a cherished American tradition. A farmer, developer and entrepreneur from New Jersey, he planted the nation’s first Christmas tree farm in the village of White Horse, in Hamilton Township, in 1901. McGalliard had hoped to turn some rock-filled land on his property into profit. He seeded his pioneering evergreen plantation with 25,000 Norway spruce trees and 5,000 saplings that he purchased from a Mr. Charles Black of Hightstown, New Jersey, according to information provided by Hamilton Township historian Jeffrey Guear. McGalliard began selling his trees for $1 each when the first were ready, around 1907 or 1908. The real household Christmas conifer was championed by German immigrants for many years. But the trees took root in American households only in the 20th century — in the wake of McGalliard’s daring idea to farm a new holiday tradition. Yet McGalliard is better remembered in his hometown of White Horse today for his role at the forefront of another American trend: suburbanization.
William V. McGalliard died on April 2, 1935, in White Horse after several years of illness. He was 77 years old.McGalliard’s tree farm is long gone, now the site of the Kingston-Kemp Funeral Home.
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