It was accidentally created in 1881 in Santa Cruz, California, by the American judge and horticulturist James Harvey Logan (1841–1928).

[3][10] The loganberry is part of the ancestral line leading to the Marionberry, a common and popular berry grown mainly in Oregon.

However, they are not very popular with commercial growers due to several problems which increase labor costs, since the plants tend to be thorny and the berries are often hidden by the leaves.

[12] Loganberries are consumed fresh, or used for juice or in jams, pies, crumbles, fruit syrups, and country wines.

Even though the park has long been closed down, several companies still sell varieties of loganberry drinks[clarification needed] through stores throughout the area, which are sold at several local fast-food franchises such as Mighty Taco in Buffalo, Sport of Kings Restaurant in Batavia, New York as well as at supermarkets.

Several years ago, growing in his garden, were plants of the Aughinbaugh blackberry and Red Antwerp raspberry.

The Aughinbaugh blackberry, from the seed of which the Logan is supposed to have originated, has pistillate or imperfect flowers, which must have been fertilized by the pollen of the raspberry, producing this most singular and valuable fruit.The vines or canes of the Loganberry grow entirely unlike either the blackberry or raspberry.

They are exceedingly strong growers, each shoot or branch reaching a growth of eight to ten feet in one season without irrigation, the aggregate growth of all the shoots on one plant amounting to from forty to fifty feet.The canes or vines are very large—without the thorns of the blackberry bushes—but have very fine soft spines, much like those of raspberry bushes.

It has the combined flavor of both berries, pleasant, mild, vinous, delightful to the taste and peculiar to this fruit alone.It is excellent for the table, eaten raw or cooked, and for jelly or jam is without an equal.

When extensively planted and generally known, this berry is destined to take front rank owing to its earliness, large size, beautiful appearance, superior quality, and delightful flavor, together with its firmness and good carrying or shipping quality.Mr.

James Waters, of this valley, has sole right with this vine.Due to its high vitamin C content, the loganberry was used by the British navy at the beginning of the 20th century as a source of vitamin C to prevent sailors from getting scurvy, in much the same way as the British did with limes during the late 18th century.