<P> The first commercial banana farm in the United States was established in Florida , near Silver Lake , in 1876 . A number of independent banana farms and cultivars have been located in a number of areas , reaching as far north as the southern Midwest and Ohio river , where wild banana trees can be found along the banks of the Ohio at far southern Illinois , Indiana , and Missouri , just north of Kentucky . This region equates roughly with the northernmost terminus of the subtropical crop - growing region of the US , which ends at about Cincinnati , Ohio , and further east in cities and locations such as Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , New York City and Long Island in New York , and coastal regions of southern New England . Banana growth further west along this ecological transition line , such as in central to northern Missouri and northern Kansas / far southern Nebraska is highly dubious and uncertain , due to extreme temperature fluctuations and an increase in aridity . </P>
<P> The first commercial banana farm in the United States was established in Florida , near Silver Lake , in 1876 . A number of independent banana farms and cultivars have been located in a number of areas , reaching as far north as the southern Midwest and Ohio river , where wild banana trees can be found along the banks of the Ohio at far southern Illinois , Indiana , and Missouri , just north of Kentucky . This region equates roughly with the northernmost terminus of the subtropical crop - growing region of the US , which ends at about Cincinnati , Ohio , and further east in cities and locations such as Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , New York City and Long Island in New York , and coastal regions of southern New England . Banana growth further west along this ecological transition line , such as in central to northern Missouri and northern Kansas / far southern Nebraska is highly dubious and uncertain , due to extreme temperature fluctuations and an increase in aridity . </P>
when did bananas become popular in the us
when did bananas become popular in the us
1876
1876