Roy and Theo Thornton sold their Okanogan County apples under two of their own labels, Britevale and Thornton’s. Operating their own warehouse had been a dream of the couple from their start in the fruit business. By 1924, northern Okanogan County in Washington State was becoming well known as a region ideal for the production of apples. And with the advent of regular service by the Great Northern Railway just a few years earlier, the marketing of the Okanogan-grown fruit was easy and convenient. Roy C. Thornton and his wife, Theo, who owned a small orchard near Wenatchee, Washington, had […]