Image reproduced for an article dated: January 7, 1956. Portrait of Nathan Weston Blanchard, who with E. L. Bradley, laid out the townsite of Santa Paula (later incorporated in 1902) in 1873. The following year, Blanchard planted the first orange trees west of the town. When the Southern Pacific Railroad arrived in 1887, he began shipping oranges by rail around the country. In 1893, Blanchard and fellow businessman Wallace Hardison, founder of the Union Oil Company, pooled $1 million in capital to develop the first large scale citrus production, to later be called Limoneira, a business still in existence today.
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