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STEERING COMMITTEE -- Left to right in photo is Phil Brown, Lorry Erickson, Jenny Walworth and Peggy Anderson. We thank the following cranberry growers, associate businesses and others who donated funds used for developing our new museum exhibits: $2,500 Glacial Lake Cranberries Jack Potter $2,250 Phil Brown $2,000 Anonymous Donor $1,000 Jacob Searls Cranberry Company Jensen Cranberry Bogs Walworth Cranberry LLC $500 Castle Rock Cranberry Bogs Betty & Stephan Gebhardt Russel

NOTE: The home of the Cranberry Discovery Center was built in 1900 as the George Warren Company’s new wood planing mill. Over the years, the building had several owners and uses until becoming a cranberry museum in 2004. Below are articles which appeared in the Warrens Index between 1899 and 1901 detailing the construction of the planing mill. Barber & Warren have made a contract with S. Cook & Son to quarry one hundred cords of stone from their quarry on the Pankoff place. D

Robert Case testing his first-generation cranberry raking machine. Second person is unidentified but is possibly employee Robert Hendricks. Below are blueprints filed July 8, 1943 with Bob’s patent application. The idea of using a machine to harvest cranberries was first mentioned in 1885. The Warrens Index  reported in 1901 that inventor Clark Stevens demonstrated a cranberry picker on the Wyatt & Purdy Marsh in Valley Junction “that promises to revolutionize the cranberry b

Advertising his trick horse Prince Onward as the most highly educated equine of his day, Harry Moseley and his horse performed for audiences around the Midwest from 1909 to 1913.   Harry was the oldest son of Sarah and Daniel Thomas Moseley. The family owned a fruit and vegetable farm in Star Valley southeast of Warrens and were one of the largest producers of potatoes in Monroe County.   Daniel Thomas’ parents, Alonzo and Eunice (Hunt) Moseley were from Cattaraugus County, N