History of Cashman Nursery:

In 1895 Thomas E. Cashman, Dan Cashman’s grandfather, bought five acres and started growing nursery stock near Owatonna, Minnesota. He had been selling trees and shrubs for another nursery since the early 1890s. In those days, the “tree sellers” would travel door-to-door and farm-to-farm in a horse and buggy, as the automobile was yet to be invented. By the early 1920s, his nursery operation included over 1,800 acres, over 200 salesmen, and was covering eight states from Michigan to Montana and down to Colorado. Cashman Nursery at Owatonna grew to be the largest nursery north of St. Louis, Missouri, growing over a million apple trees a year, not to mention millions of other trees and shrubs.