[AT] funny..

[Rob Wilson]

Sounds like eminent domain rearing it's ugly head. Our family home place was
taken for strip mining, my great grand parents general store and home taken
and tons of others in the area. This is in Eastern Ohio and of course once
it's taken it stays taken. I recently looked at a farm near Zanesville Oh
that had all mineral rights owned by the electric company and they still
wanted going rate for it! I asked him what would stop them from coming in
the day after I bought it and saying they were taking the coal? His
response, well I've lived here 20 years and it hasn't happened yet. Well
DUH! It's still for sale. 
Rob 

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Al Jones
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:07 PM
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Yes that sounds right.  My wife's family had a store and a home they had to
give up.  They weren't allowed to take much with them, the Army was in such
a hurry.  They leased most of their land to the government.  My FIL said
that when his mother got her share of the family property back, it was under
a couple feet of concrete because it was where the motor pool was!  He has
also said they had a time finally collecting their lease money from the
government.  A lot of the family land got taken for good when Camp Lejune
expanded.

Al


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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:33 PM
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Yep, Camp Butner alright. Don't know when they abandoned it after the war
but it wasn't long after to the best of my understanding. All the original
roads in that town still carry their military names. There are still several
bunkers in the woods. And lots of unexploded ordinance remaining----the army
is still fighting that problem. To this day most of the families who were
displaced still get hot under the collar when talking about it. It's not so
much of having to give up your farm to help the good of the country but it
is how they were treated. My grandfather was more sawmiller than farmer.
If
he wasn't in the field then he was in the woods logging. Upon receiving his
eviction notice one of the stipulations was that he was not to cut down
another tree effective immedialtely. The house they were living in was 4

years old---it became an officers club. My dad, who was 12 yrs old, pulled
every bit of wiring out of the house. Every screen was pulled off the
windows. Anything they could take with them they did. Trying to move a
farming operation and working on 2 farms a considerable distance apart took
its toll healthwise on my grandfather. He died the same year they moved
here. Afterwards dad quit school to help his mother farm. Fortunatley they
had several tennants. Then again this cost them when the allotment for
tobacco progarm began since most of the tennants were not high yield
producers. Supposedly the feds were going to allow them the chance to buy
back their land but never did. The state got first crack at it. They bought
it and then proceeded to cut the timber. Talk about adding insult to
injury!!!  The area my dad's family was from was known as Veazey Ridge.
The
newspaper headline in '42 read "For the first time in 200 years there are no
Veazey's on Veazey ridge". Well, we've been here for the past 60 years
although the farm is down from 600 to just 60 acres. To the best of my
knowledge most of the Veazeys are out of farming. Not exactly genealogy, but
its my way of tracking part of my family.

John


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From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
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> I'd bet John is talking about Camp Butner.  That's near his stomping 
> grounds.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:44 PM
> Subject: RE: [AT] funny..
>
>
>> John, What base was that?
>>
>> Down here at the coast, some of my wife's family was displaced when
they
>> built Camp Davis at Holly Ridge.  TRACTOR CONTENT: A history
instructor
>> at Cape Fear Community College has just written a good book about the
>> history of the base.  His father was Wilbur Tyndall, who owned the JD
>> museum in Pink Hill.  Small world.
>>
>> My Granddaddy and great-Granddaddy got jobs as carpenters
constructing
>> the base.  Not much is left today, the base was closed after the war.
>> Camp Lejune owns most of the land now but the air strip is still back
>> there in the woods, I am told, and you can still spy a brick chimney
>> here and there from the base.
>>
>> Al
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
>> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 5:14 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>>
>> Come to think of it I believe I have an uncle buried on what used to
be
>> his
>> family's farm. His wife however was buried in a church cemetery.
>>
>> WWII dislodged all of my grandmothers family. Uncle Sam needed the
land
>> for
>> a military base/POW camp. Anyhow there were several old cemetery's
>> there.
>> They didn't move them but didn't do a whole lot to upkeep them
either.
>>
>> Some of which are now on property owned by the state.
>>
>> John
>>
>>


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