Category Archives: Company History

Puyallup History, Part 2: A Look Back at the Cannery Days

Some folks from Puyallup may know that the site of Washington Cold Storage used to be a cannery. Founded as the Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Growers’ Canning Company, the main site on 15th Street in Puyallup was one of the greatest canneries in the Northwest around the time of the First World War. After attracting…

Washington Cold Storage Puyallup Facility Has a Storied Past

Washington Cold Storage, founded in the mid-1990s, preserved a piece of Puyallup history by turning a mid-twentieth century warehouse into a state-of-the-art distribution center. Built in 1935, the building on 15th Street served as a cannery for the Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Growers Association (established in 1889), employing a large number of people from the…