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The Robert Taylor Ranch is a ranch located on Mandeville Canyon Road, in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, California. The ranch was built in 1956 for Waite Phillips and designed by architect Robert Byrd. [1] It is about 112 acres (0.45 km 2) large, with more than 20,000 square feet of living space. [1]
Reconstructed Smith log cabin. Joseph Smith Sr., his wife Lucy Mack Smith, and some of their children moved from Norwich, Vermont, to Palmyra, New York, in 1816. [5] In 1818 or 1819, the family built a log home near property owned by the estate of Nicholas Evertson of New York City, but did not enter a purchase agreement for the land until a land agent had been appointed in 1820.
In 2003, the Brentwood Country Mart was acquired by James Rosenfield of J.S. Rosenfield and co. [8] He restored the property architecturally, and reinstated many of the Mart's original offerings, such as a post office, food courtyard, barber shop, toy store, and shoe repair shop, as well as a rotating series of pop-up shops such as Kule and Rowing Blazers.
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The family of railroad man C.W. Smith owned the house for more than 60 years. Though Judge Hatch was the original occupant, the house was acquired by Charles Warren Smith in the mid or late 1890s and remained in the Smith family until the early 1960s. For this reason it became known as the Smith Estate.
The Smiths were a middling farm family, but suffered a fateful loss when Smith Sr., after speculating in ginseng and being cheated by a business associate, was financially ruined. After he sold the family farm to pay his debts, the Smiths "crossed the boundary dividing independent ownership from tenancy and day labor."
A family farm is generally understood to be a farm owned and/or operated by a family. [3] It is sometimes considered to be an estate passed down by inheritance.. Although a recurring conceptual and archetypal distinction is that of a family farm as a smallholding versus corporate farming as large-scale agribusiness, that notion does not accurately describe the realities of farm ownership in ...
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