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Idlewild Farm Complex, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, listed on the NRHP in Pennsylvania; Idlewild (Media, Pennsylvania), summer cottage of architect Frank Furness; Idlewild Historic District (Memphis, Tennessee), listed on the NRHP in Shelby County, Tennessee; Idlewild Mansion (Fredericksburg, VA), Virginia's Landmark Registry
George Jacob "G.J." Mecherle [1] (pronounced "Ma-herl") (June 7, 1877 - March 10, 1951) was the founder of State Farm, headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois.Mecherle, a farmer who later became an insurance agent, founded State Farm after becoming dissatisfied with the insurance rates charged to farmers, as those rates included the risks of city drivers as well.
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Dairy farms St. Lawrence County now is the only county in the New York-New Jersey Milkshed with more than 1,000 dairy farms. It has 1,242.The number of farms in Oneida County has dropped this year ...
The social history of American agriculture (1936) online; Schapsmeier, Edward L., and Frederick H. Encyclopedia of American Agricultural History (Greenwood, 1975) Schob, David E. Hired hands and plowboys: farm labor in the Midwest, 1815-60 (1975), pp. 173–249. Shannon, Fred A. The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860–1897 (1945) online
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.
Location of Loudon County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Loudon County, Tennessee.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States.
8,500 BC – Neolithic Revolution in the ancient Near East 8,000 BC – domesticated wheat at PPNA sites in the Levant 7500 BC – PPNB sites across the Fertile Crescent growing wheat, barley, chickpeas, peas, beans, flax and bitter vetch.