1500's

Native Americans utilized and cultivated wild pecans

1600s - 1700s

Spanish colonists cultivated orchards (late 1600s - early 1700s)

English settlers planted pecan trees (1700s)

George Washington planted pecan trees (1775)

Thomas Jefferson planted pecan trees (1779)

Economic potential for pecans realized (late 1700s)

1800s

Pecans exported by French to the West Indies (1802)

Pecan budding technique discovered (1822)

Successful grafting of the pecan tree (1846)

First planting of improved pecans (1876)

Commercial propagation of pecans begins (1880s)