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2. Smiling Hill Farm - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.smilinghill.com. Smiling Hill Farm is a 500 acre [1] traditional New England farm encompassing parts of the municipalities of Westbrook, Scarborough, and Gorham, Maine. Founded in 1720 as the homestead of Nathaniel Knight, the 12th-generation descendants continue to operate the farm today. Known as the "Knight Farm", the farm was ...

3. Century Farm - Wikipedia

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   Century Farm. A Century Farm or Centennial Farm is a farm or ranch in the United States or Canada that has been officially recognized by a regional program documenting the farm has been continuously owned by a single family for 100 years or more. Some regions also have Sesquicentennial Farm (150 years) and Bicentennial Farm (200 years) programs.

4. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products. Most farms were geared toward subsistence production for family use.

5. List of wind farms in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The surrounding land is used for sheep grazing and growing hay. The Smoky Hills Wind Farm in Kansas. Brazos Wind Ranch in Texas. /  41.467°N 94.633°W  / 41.467; -94.633  ( Adair Wind Farm) /  35.017°N 118.317°W  / 35.017; -118.317  ( Alta Wind Energy Center) /  37.733°N 121.650°W  / 37.733; -121.650  ( Altamont ...

6. Gordon Fox Ranch - Wikipedia

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   Added to NRHP. November 9, 2015. The Gordon Fox Ranch is a historic silver fox farming property at 860 West Broadway ( United States Route 2) in Lincoln, Maine. Operating from about 1924 to 1940, the property is the best-preserved of a significant number of fox farms established by brothers Frank and Fred Gordon in Lincoln.

7. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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   Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...