In 1966, Michigan placed this historical marker at the South Haven Experiment Station com­mem­orating Stanley Johnston’s work and the peaches he released. Johnston is pictured with the marker. Until the Redhaven peach came along in 1940, Elberta held the title as the most-planted peach variety in the world. After that came a flip-flop. By the 1960s, Redhaven was gaining that distinction and would hold it for the remainder of the twentieth century. Redhaven, bred by Stanley Johnston at the South Haven Experiment Station in southwest Michigan, was one of the earlier deliberately bred peach varieties. When Johnston released that peach, […]