E. Waldo Ward & Son, on Highland Avenue, evokes the town’s rural past with a family jam-making business begun in 1918. The founder supplied marmalade to the dining cars of the Union Pacific Railroad. Two and one- half acres of tangerine and orange groves remain, and all goods are still prepared and canned on the property. Although the product line is available online, vis- itors can buy direct from a tiny gift shop tucked behind the original farmhouse. Ward’s lime marmalade is an incredible sweet-tart confection that turns ordinary toast into Key lime pie for breakfast. |
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