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feature | haunted wineries
EDENVALE WINERY
hile some wineries talk of a ghost Elizabeth Stewart built their grand home Eden Valley Orchards processed their first
or two, EdenVale Winery tells of between 1890 and 1898. A year after its vintage wine under the brand, EdenVale
Wseveral. The site certainly pro- completion, their eighteen-year old daugh- Winery. Their pears now become cider.
vides the perfect setting—an historic house ter, Junie, died. Devastated, Stewarts sold the
with multiple staircases, rooms with passage- home to Gordon and Helen Voorhies. Today When Anne Root initially looked at the
ways between, a cellar, an attic. the house is called the Voorhies Mansion. property to purchase, she understood the
adage that old houses pick their owners.
Eden Valley Orchards is the birthplace of In 1999, the Roots, a long time orchard fam- Initially skeptical about ghosts, Anne’s opin-
Southern Oregon’s pear industry. Joseph and ily, purchased the property. Two years later, ion changed with time. “There are so many
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