LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
It’s a bit past the prime strawberry picking season, but it’s not too late to take a look back at when the Arnold area was home to many agricultural pursuits.
In this photo supplied by the Arnold Historical Society, Ruth (Stahl) Noll tends to the farm that she and her husband, Theodore, maintained.
Much of the farm is now the Theodore Ridge subdivision off Richardson Road.
According to information from the society, Ruth could pick about 12 trays (144 quarts) of berries a day. She and her husband would take their produce to market at Broadway and Jefferson Avenue in south St. Louis, where a farmers market opened at 5 a.m. each Saturday morning.
One of the Nolls’ four daughters, Eileen, and her husband, Robert Cook, still live on a part of the family farmland.
Send submissions to LOOKING BACK to nvrweakly@aol.com or bring or mail them to the Leader office, 503 N. Second St., Festus (P.O. Box 159, 63028). Please include your name, phone number, a brief description of what’s in the photo and tell us how you came by it. Please also include when it was taken, where and by whom (if known). A new LOOKING BACK photo will be posted each week.
