ORANGE COUNTY ALMANAC : A Go-Getter From Way Back
Walter Knott, founder of Knott’s Berry Farm, showed entrepreneurial spirit early in life.
As a boy living in Pomona, he offered to clean weed-filled lots if the owners would let him grow vegetables on their property. He developed a flourishing vegetable business and eventually joined a cousin in a partnership for a Buena Park berry farm.
Source: “Reflections in Orange” by Warren F. Morgan
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