Wendler Fruit Farm Traditional Cache
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Our family thought it would be great to explore the Newman Lake area. We each chose different areas to place a cache and give some history on the nearby area (the cache may not be located exactly as the history states but is close to the original location). Please enjoy the series: remember to bring a writing utensil, there is no room for geo swag, and as always feel free to CITO.
Congratulations to LLCOOL for FTF !
NEWMAN LAKE HISTORY TOUR 42 - WENDLER FRUIT FARM
Henry Wendler (1836) led an adventurous life before settling down in 1887 on 280 acres at the foot of Newman Lake. With his wife Sarah they planted fruit trees, berry bushes, and every year a big a garden. They would take the produce to Post Falls, Idaho or the Fruit Fair to sell or customers would come to the farm and buy the fresh produce (what wasn’t bought was canned).
George Wendler (1866) and his brother Charles (1868) joined their father and step mother in 1887 on the property on the south end of the lake. In 1906 Henry and Sarah sold the farm all except 40 acres to his sons, Charles and George and moved to Cheney. His sons continued to run the farm, which was about 300 acres of mainly planted oats.
George married Mary Ann Hood (1868), daughter of David Hood, in 1896 and had five children: Jessie; Gladys; Florence; George Jr. and David who all grew up on the farm and attended Newman Lake School.
Mary Hood died in 1922, Henry died in 1927, Sarah in 1930, George in 1937 and Charles in 1942. David who had been sent away to live with his sister Jessie in Seattle after his mother death , return after graduating and helped his brother George work the family farm.
George Jr. married Nell Platter in 1926 and spent time in Alaska then return back to Newman Lake. They had two children Doug and Laurie. In 1954 they moved to Arizona. David married Maybelle Pueck in 1935 were they build their home along side Honeymoon Bay Road, about two miles from the Wendler family farm.
The Wendler family barn was built in 1912; it is still standing and painted red.
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