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The Parker–Hickman Farm includes the oldest standing log structure in Buffalo National River.The farm was homesteaded in the 1840s by settlers from Tennessee. It embodies an agricultural landscape with farmstead, extant fields (bench and bottomland), fencerows, roads, cattle gates, garden and orchard plots, wooded slopes and springs.
The first full-size maze was created by Earl Beal at his Annville, Pennsylvania, farm in 1993, inspired by his father's work designing mazes for Knoebels, a well-known amusement park.
History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860 (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1925) online, pp 281-305. Canine, Craig. Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture (Knopf, 1995) Casson, Herbert. Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work (1909) popular ...
Agriculture terraces were (and are) common in the austere, high-elevation environment of the Andes. Inca farmers using a human-powered foot plough. The earliest known areas of possible agriculture in the Americas dating to about 9000 BC are in Colombia, near present-day Pereira, and by the Las Vegas culture in Ecuador on the Santa Elena peninsula.
The N.C. Department of Agriculture's Century Farm Program honors farms for their contributions to the state's rich agricultural heritage. There are 1,950 member farms in the program. Show comments
The idea of an agriculture museum was being discussed. In June 2001, under the direction of President Mike Snyder, the first Crawford County Farm Show was held at the fairgrounds, with Allis ...
The farm is near Steele's Tavern and Raphine, close to the northern border of Rockbridge and Augusta counties in the U.S. state of Virginia, and is currently a museum run by the Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station of Virginia Tech. The museum has free admission and covers 5 acres (2.0 ha) of the initial 532-acre (215.3 ha) farm.
John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area is the original home of John and Amelia (Gamble) Park. [1] [2] It is now an agricultural and living history museum of farm life in the 19th century in present-day Essex, Ontario. [2] [3]