[AT] funny..

Tue Oct 31 04:40:49 PST 2006

Wow Ed,  you grew up quick!  Only 2 years.  It took me nearly 20.
LOL.

Just joking.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CRAWLER HEAVEN" <edc at crawlerheaven.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] funny..

> 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. :)
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Wilson" <rowilson at infinet.com>
> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:37 PM
> Subject: RE: [AT] funny..
>
>
>> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [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-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
>> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:33 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>>
>>
>> > 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'"
>> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> > 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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