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On this day in 1847, Oregon's first fruit nursery arrived at the present site of Milwaukie. Known as the Traveling Nursery because it was transported to Oregon on wheels, this selection of 800 young apple, pear, peach, plum and cherry trees was the idea of Henderson Welling, a successful nurseryman from Henry County, Iowa. In the spring of 1847, Welling and his son Alfred, left Iowa driving two four-yoke ox teams hauling tree-laden wagons. In 1851 a good crop of apples and cherries were harvested from these trees and four bushels of apples subsequently sold in San Francisco for $500. So began the first nursery on America's Pacific coast.
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