Info from my livestock brand question of a couple of weeks ago.Trying to locate family farm location

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08-31-2021, 20:58
USMC88-93

Info from my livestock brand question of a couple of weeks ago.Trying to locate family farm location

A few weeks ago I posted a thread asking about livestock brands and ways of determining where the brand in question was registered to in an effort to locate the position of the family farm in the 30's.. Further digging through old paperwork in the house I located this old newspaper clipping dating from 1933 related to a court notice of foreclosure on the estate of my Great Grandfather. Which included the section info for the farm.... Interesting to now know its exact location. It was always spoken of as being "All the way up in Brighton" which I guess back in the day this would have been in fact exactly that when coming from Denver. It is the full right hand side of Section 18 My apologies for picture formatting that first one is a little tall and skinny.

Here is original thread https://www.ar-15.co/threads/184570-...rands-question
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08-31-2021, 21:22
.455_Hunter

Interesting. I would go out and try to walk the property before it gets all turned into houses, if it hasn't been already. It's always fun to see if there are some debris or leftover remains of foundations, etc.
08-31-2021, 21:27
USMC88-93

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Interesting. I would go out and try to walk the property before it gets all turned into houses, if it hasn't been already. It's always fun to see if there are some debris or leftover remains of foundations, etc.

Ive worked that area for years and have cousins living just west of it on the south side of 144th actually their house is in the newer subdivision in the first picture across 144th from that lake in the upper left side of the photo. I have gradually watched that area turn into houses without knowing my family once owned 320 acres of it. Most of it south of 470 is either complete houses or houses in process of framing at this point. I have photos of my father riding a pony as a child presumably next to that pond of the property but even that may have changed since the early 1930's
08-31-2021, 21:56
MrPrena

That area is Willow Bend? I see the sign from Lennar every time I drive by there. It is south of Lewis Pointe hoa.
08-31-2021, 22:35
.455_Hunter

The whole thing, from the Great Depression foreclosure to the sprouting of cookie-cutter rabbit hutches, is rather sad.

My Grandparents were living high on the hog when the Depression hit. They were forced onto the family's 1/4 section that was fortunately owned free and clear west of Wichita. They raised three boys there, all still living, with my Dad the youngest at 85. They sold it and moved to Boulder in 1954 when he started at CU. The house and out buildings were quickly torn down and the property is still a wheat field to this day. There are all sorts of bits of china and other debris on the site. The property still had visible buffalo wallows when my Dad was growing up. You can still see where the main house and driveway were located on Google satellite images.
09-01-2021, 08:57
Grant H.

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Originally Posted by .455_Hunter

The whole thing, from the Great Depression foreclosure to the sprouting of cookie-cutter rabbit hutches, is rather sad.

But... but... "Progress!"... However I completely agree.

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Originally Posted by .455_Hunter

My Grandparents were living high on the hog when the Depression hit. They were forced onto the family's 1/4 section that was fortunately owned free and clear west of Wichita. They raised three boys there, all still living, with my Dad the youngest at 85. They sold it and moved to Boulder in 1954 when he started at CU. The house and out buildings were quickly torn down and the property is still a wheat field to this day. There are all sorts of bits of china and other debris on the site. The property still had visible buffalo wallows when my Dad was growing up. You can still see where the main house and driveway were located on Google satellite images.

At least your family owned the 1/4 section outright. I personally believe that we are headed for another Great Depression (likely worse than 1929), and knowing how, what seems like, 90% of the population lives on what they can afford in minimum monthly payments, it's going to get ugly...

I am eternally grateful, looking back now, for the way my parents raised me and my brothers. They are noticeably older than most of our friends parents, and raised us accordingly, including how to be financially responsible.