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My community was a small farming area in S. Calif. I am the forth generation. Driving through now, you would not now any farming ever happened. All houses now. A friend of mine wrote a book on the history of our area. In the early 80's there were still a few old timers left that farmed including my Dad. My friend talked to them, and took very good notes about the area, and farming. With that information and family pictures they provided,he wrote a very interesting and informative book. All these old farmers are gone now, but their history lives on in the his book. Has anyone done anything like that in your area? Stan
 
We have several books about our area. One was about the schools and a couple of history of area books. Interesting facts that the first train robbery happened here. There is also a pic of my moms dad getting on the bus for basic training as the first person drafted from the county. A lot of people there saying bye and local business handing them candy bars and other treats.
 
My children are the ninth generation to be living on the same land, 5th generation to be living in the same house. The house I live in my Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother started building in 1919 and almost finished in 1924. I say almost because when I got the house in 1999 there was still one wall in the back bedroom that had never been covered. The studs were still showing. Almost everybody that lived on the road we are on was kin when I was growing up. It has changed now since people are moving up here off the coast since Katrina. But a majority is still part of the original family that moved here in the early 1800's. There was a book written in the 1980's and it had the genealogy of the family and there is still a family reunion every year for all the relatives of the Patriarch and Matriarch of our family.
 
There is a book called "The History of Dixon County" about my home county. Written about 1900, about 50 years after this area was getting settled. It listed some names of early settlers, stories, notes about what was timber and what was prarie, where the roads laid, etc. Kind of interesting to those so inclined. My ancestors names didn't make it in there even though they supposedly settled here by the 1870's.
 
There is a county museum that has a lot of county history. It started out as one of the 1st permanent settlements in the Louisiana territory and what became Arkansas. It was the stopping off point for many of the original settlers going to Texas, Davy Crockett included. It also has a darker past as part of the Trail of Tears.
We are still mostly a farming community that is pretty diverse. Rice, corn and soybeans are the main crops along with some peanuts, wheat and milo. Some watermellons, pumpkins and potatoes are also grown. Cattle, broilers and timber finish out the farm products.
My family 1st arrived in 1811, the farm I run now has been in the family since 1906. There are quite a few centennial farms here and a half dozen or so sesquicentennial farms.
 
About 15 years ago a retired teacher put together a nice history book of the area where I grew up, it's a good thing she did because so many pioneers have died since. Extreme N MN was not settled until after 1900, my grandmother was the first teacher in Birchdale in 1905, and named the town. My wife's ancestors settled on the Canadian side, it was settled first, the railroad came through in 1904, before that it was just steamboats.
 
Museum here has done a lot of collecting county history. Still are recording old timers' stories. This county was settled early by pioneers from the Oregon trail. Timber and farming area. The Applegate trail, opened up to California for the gold rush, runs right through this area. Army forts, old grain mills on the rivers and creeks, sawmills, orchards and wheat fields....James
 
I live three miles from our county seat (Hardin County Texas. The neighborhood where I live and grew up was the original county seat settled in the late 1840's- 1850's. Land for the local cemetery was donated in 1865. A treasure hunter worked my Dad's property in the late 1990's and found all sorts of stuff, from coins to Civil War error bullets. Several years later he was moving out of state and gave everything he found to my new born son. There is an abandoned "Colored" cemetery back in the woods if you know where to look. There have been many books written on local history.
 
I have a whole file full of pictures all the way from horse and buggy days to this year. There's a Facebook page with a name something like "I'm from Sheridan". I guess there's a lot of pictures and written history on there.
There was one book written several years ago about one local family that had a lot of local history all the way from the frontier days,pretty much before there were even roads. That was an interesting read. It traced the entire family history up to modern times when the book was written. All the offspring,marriages,the names of spouses parents all the way through.The whole works.
 
Back in the sixties, folks in our community published " The Butte Stands Guard ". It was a history of our area in southern Alberta. Although there were traders and settlers here in the late 1800s, most of our settlement came in the early 1900s. Swedes, Germans, Norwegians, Irish, and people from Eastern Canada were in mix. The next town to the south was known as " little Sweden." A lot of folks came from the US, particularly Minnesota and Washington. Our native people are still represented in the area, as well as Hutterites and Dutch. In 1999, a committee updated our history book, and Volume 2 was published. Both volumes are cherished and read and re-read. If I can give a bit of advice to communities considering publishing a history, do it while you still can. We lose more of our elders every year, and their stories go with them. Our history is IMPORTANT! Unc
 
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