Congdon Orchards is one of the oldest continuously operating fruit ranches in the state of Washington. Located in the Yakima Valley, the company can trace its roots to 1887, when Chester Congdon, a Duluth, Minnesota, lawyer and business entrepreneur, first came to the area. Mr. Congdon was a New York State native, a graduate of Syracuse University, and a lawyer who began a legal career in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1880. Just five years later, in 1892, he moved north to Duluth where he continued to practice law but also invested in a variety of commercial, agricultural, and financial endeavors. […]