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THE INVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



pretty little city of Vevay, Indiana. This spot is 

 about 45 miles below Cincinnati. The colonists still 

 held the vineyard in Kentucky, and cultivated it hope- 

 fully until 1804, and some of the party did not leave 

 it even then. But all eyes were turned to the north. 



The settlers not only 

 thought that tin- 

 new location was the 

 better our for the 

 grape, but tradition 

 says that they chafed 



under the presence 

 of slavery, and de- 

 sired tO escape it. 



John -lames l>u- 

 four petitioned ( !on- 

 gress to pass an act 

 authorizing him and 

 his associates to 



enter npon lands, 

 with an extended 



credit, Cor the pur- 

 pose of introducing 



the culture of the 

 vine into the United 

 States. I !ongr< ss 

 responded, and on 

 .M;i> 1st, L802, 

 authorized them to select tour sections of land on a 

 credil of twelve years. The Bettlers selected 2,500 

 acres, and called the place New Switzerland. The 

 countrj was b dense wilderness. There were verj 



few settlers ill ill.- iv^loll. The t'll>t .-.-tiler within 





Pig 



Old pear tree on Bite of "First Vineyard" 

 plantation. 1895. 



