[AT] funny..

CRAWLER HEAVEN edc at crawlerheaven.com
Tue Oct 31 06:41:58 PST 2006


Thats the 2 years i lived in Zanesville.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] funny..


> 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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