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Harvest festival to honor city’s first apple orchard at historic home in Colorado Springs

Red astrachan and Duchess of Oldenburg.

Those were the two varieties of apples that grew in the city’s first apple orchard, tended to by Maj. Henry McAllister and his wife, Elizabeth, at their downtown 1873 home, now the McAllister House Museum. The house plans for the oldest existing substantial home in Colorado Springs were done by architect George Summers, who also designed Springs founder Brig. Gen. William Palmer’s Glen Eyrie residence and Grace Episcopal Church.

The city’s first orchard will be feted at Saturday’s free Harvest Festival at the museum. The event also will feature tours, food, music, antique cars, crafts for kids, music by the Wayne Wilkinson Trio, and many of the city’s cultural and civic organizations, including the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, League of Women Voters, The African-American Genealogical Society of Colorado Springs and First Congregational Church.

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