Exhibit chronicles four generations of a Sunnyvale orchard family

Butcher’s Corner revisited

For longtime Sunnyvale residents, the location of “Butcher’s Corner” will be familiar. Where multi-story apartment buildings are now being constructed once stood the Butcher family orchard.

The farm had been in the family since 1881, when Rolla and Emma Butcher bought 160 acres of land. After Rolla’s early death, Emma ran the farm by herself, planting fruit trees while raising her young children. Over the next century and beyond, her descendants kept running the orchard operations until 2013.