Re: O/T History and price of the family farm=1969

Posted by j heitkemper on January 01, 2011 at 21:20:01 from (98.108.31.17):

In Reply to: O/T History and price of the family farm posted by 37 Chief on January 01, 2011 at 14:17:53:

if you guys don't mind a little more history ,5 generations before me My dads ancestors came from fertile Alsace /Loraine region between France and Germany , Got Tired of the constant real estate wars between cuntries and getting killed ,... Moms folx came over from upper Black Forest area of Germany arond 1815,settled in Ferdinand In,German was primary language til mid 1930s when the Priest Strongly insisted congregation to Speak only ENGLISH !..(in retrospect probably was a good idea) Granpa run a sawmil,carpentered a couple houses , Farmed and was Twp and school trustee ... Family lore claims for a time in the depths of the depression they Made very good Corn Whiskey for FRENCH LICK , that ended up in Chicago ,St Louis , Louisville.. just To pay the bills,,.Buy a new WC Allis, Ford pickup and a top of the line 1932 CHRYSLER , Granpa quit ,and Demanded his 2 sons to QUIT or ELSE !, they were getting $20 per gallon ,and wanted to go LEGAL ,but that was very complicated .. .ww2 Come along,brothers and Mom moved to Louisvile to Work building airplanes ,Mom met Dad , Then sent him off to War in early 42 , and joined others to pray for Safe Return of so many ... 2nd cusins have the 180 acre farm now ...Dads folx Got their start peddling goods and produce in Louisville ,, Parlaying the profits to buy a large parcel of land FEGENBUSH creek runs thru ,..Today Some of General Electric LOUISVILLE Plant sits on a portion of that Land ..,Grandma had 7 Brothers and 6 other sisters . there was a financial scare before 1900 .Her shrewd Daddy bought another farm on a shoestring ...the run down historic FARMINGTON plantation (Designed by T. Jefferson, Lincoln stayed there often in 1830s) at auction,, And the Large Bischof Family all scraped by from the bounty of the land and carpenter work , ..From the 6 mile Lane Farm they loaded potatoes straight from the feild on RXR cars between and during both World Wars off of the Old 6 mile siding,.. Dad said He worked daylite til dark alongside as many as a hundred Field hands during the busy times , .. "Race Made no difference , work needed to be done and it all payed good to anyone willing to work " For over 30 years the Bischoff Bro. threshed most of the grain in the area,, having 2 sets of threshing equipment..after ww2 ended , my parents lived there at Farmington until march of 1947(they Bought 120 acre of ditchesdairy farm at Lanseville IND. for 7 thousand ) ,my Oldest 2 Sisters can boast she were the last children concieved of Bischof ancestry at Farmington,Dad Claimed "the only way you could heat that house was to Set it Afire" ... 1949,Great Grandma sold Farmington estate to Daughters of American Revolution/and Watterson Expressway sawed the rest up into home sites and clover leaf intersections .Property was more a liability than a asset in those Years and She Did not get alot of money like most would think , In comparison in 1969 the 240 acre 6 mile Lane Farm brought just over 1 million and proceeds was divided among over 50 heirs .. i recall my great Uncles commenting . Look !,What we got for that Ol'Place . Wow! ..LAND Has gone up in 20 Years!! Grandma should had held on to Farmington instead of giving it away like she did ... It would a brought A bunch in 1969 ,..

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