Cherry Blossom Festival Washington D C Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/cherry-blossom-festival-washington-d-c Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:13:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Northwest Cherry Festival – USA Festivals http://toursmaps.com/northwest-cherry-festival-usa-festivals.html http://toursmaps.com/northwest-cherry-festival-usa-festivals.html#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:26:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=271466 The Dalles Downtown area Late April thedalleschamber.com/northwest-cherry-festival/ Showcasing the agricultural and Western heritage of The Dalles—an historic Oregon community on the banks of the Columbia River—the Northwest Cherry Festival was launched in 1979, though its roots date back to 1940, when a local woman, Helen Spickerman, was chosen as Cherry Queen to represent the city and one of its most important products at the Rose Parade in Portland. World War II interrupted the idea thereafter until 1960 when the Wasco County Fruit and Produce League and the Washington Fruit Commission, in conjunction with The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce, created

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