[AT] funny..

Mon Oct 30 21:14:52 PST 2006

It's in nice shape now. They rebuilt it a few years ago and it's got a sort
of old appearance. Sort of that brick sidewalk that anywhere USA now has.
Just another one of my pet peeves :)Of course Tom's Ice Cream Bowl is just a
stones throw away and it hasn't changed in 50+ years. 
Rob 

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of CRAWLER HEAVEN
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:46 PM
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When i was a kid (1961-62) i lived in Zanesville Largest Y bridge in the
world if i remember right,I visited there a couple of years ago looked
alittle distressed.  Ed Now in Palmyra New York Birth Place of the Mormon
religion. :)
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From: "Rob Wilson" <rowilson at infinet.com>
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Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:37 PM
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> 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
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
> Subject: RE: [AT] funny..
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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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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> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>
> 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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> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:02 PM
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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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