It's Ours!

We closed the purchase of our property on Wednesday, May 2, 2012.
We finally met the seller who had some interesting things to tell us about the land.

Our property and a great deal of surrounding land had been in her family for generations.  When her Great-Grandfather died, his youngest son inherited the land.  I don't know how much land it was, but the seller described it as stretching from Giant City Road to west across Indian Creek.  I will do some research into this, but the way she described it, it was probably several hundred acres.  The son who inherited the property was a gambler and sold it off piece by piece over the years.  Family members bought some of it and some remains in family hands.  Many of the family grew up in that area; attending school in a one room school house in a valley now under Spring Arbor Lake, worshiping in Zion Church and buried in the Zion Cemetery.  Our 20 acres once had a house and barns, where our seller's mother was born and raised.  Now, there is no sign of any buildings, only hundreds of daffodils to hint at once was there. I'm anxious to
 learn more.

 

After the closing we went right to work, but first, a toast.