Enjoy these photos of Watermelon Day in Rocky Ford, CO in the early 1900s. We believe it was 1903.
The photos were taken by Frank Sherman, who famously photographed a cattle drive by the Holt Cattle Company in southeast Colorado. These photos are in the Bowen collection, and the black and white photos were colorized.
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By the 1950’s the pile was twice that size.