History of area peanuts spans century

Sacking graded peanuts. Peanut-shelling plant. Comanche, Texas, 1939 (Library of Congress)

(Clovis New Journal) Peanuts have been a part of the Roosevelt County culture for years, and as the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce learned, they have been in the area for 100 years this year.
Chamber Executive Director Karl Terry said he was surprised to learn that this year marked 100 years since the first recorded peanut crop was grown in Roosevelt.
Terry said that after extensive searches through Eastern New Mexico University’s special collections and the help of a few locals, he discovered that John M. Bradley was the first person to grow peanuts in the area. Continued