Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
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    • Just Another Squash: 12,000 BCE to 1600
    • From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie: 1600 to 1799
    • The Making of a Rural New England Icon: 1800 to 1860
    • The Pumpkin and the Nation: 1861 to 1899
    • Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins: 1900 to 1945
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    • The Changing Nature of American Rural Economies: 1946 to the Present
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Cox Farms Pumpkin Festival, Centreville, Virginia, October 2000. Photo: Cindy Ott. 

Pumpkins Revive Small Farms   

Cox Farms, located in Centreville, Virginia, began its pumpkin festival in 1983 and it is now one of the most popular fall tourist attractions in the Washington, D.C. area.  The Cox family is one of thousands of small family farms to convert some of their land into pumpkin wonderlands every autumn.  “It is not something we grow to sell,” stated one California pumpkin farmer, “but something we grow to bring happiness.” 

 

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