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Very nice picture and frame, the kids are out working in the garden which is only mowed now, 32 years and a generation later, a lot of pleasant memories for us.

My parents live on this farm in Middle Georgia. My father has lived there since he was 10 years old - he's now 67. They have raised cows on the land for many decades, and my three sisters and I grew up there and developed a love for this property. The old house isn't fancy, but it's home. There are now three barns, and there aren't as many huge oak trees now. The smaller details in the picture are what got me - there's an old truck by the barn that just left the farm about three years ago, and Mama's Chrysler station wagon is sitting in front of the house. That car probably had 225,000 miles on it when she sold it to someone else in the late 80s.

This photo printed and in a frame is phenomenal. I am excited to present it to my parents this year as a retirement gift to both.

This is a picture of the farm of John and Effie Glick at Centerville, VA. The date of this picture is 1966. It is reasonable facsimile of the farm layout during my childhood, save for a few building added at a later date. 12 children were reared on this farm. Bought in 1931 and remained in the family until the early 1980's.

Based in Morrison, Illinois, RC Smith Transportation provides a wide range of services to the northern Illinois region. Founded during World War II, we initially were nothing more than a single station-wagon taking our neighbors' children to school. From that humble beginning, we have evolved to offer a wide variety of services.

This is "Homestead Farm", a family farm and registered Angus herd that was established in 1910. 100 years ago Joe Huseman began raising Purebred Angus cattle, and a family, on this farm near Cedar Lake, Indiana. Joe's goal was to provide a living for his family and to raise his children to appreciate nature and their fellow man. This goal lent itself well to the cattle business. Joe's herd of cattle became widely known as a source of quality seed stock, and as a source of excellent tasting beef. Over the years Homestead Farm's cattle have won many awards. The most noteworthy accomplishment, however, is the herd's longevity. In a time when businesses of all kinds seem to come and go with the weather, a family farm that has been sustained for over 100 years is a testament to the commitment and attitude handed down through the Huseman family.

We feel that whether a farm has been owned by a family for 100 years or 5 years, there still has to be a lot of history associated with it. The day to day struggles, and joys, of living on a farm seem to all come rushing back when one sees a photo of the place from years gone by. It is not that your photos actually tell a story. What they do is bring many, many stories back from the recesses of our memories. It seems that each time one walks by the photo another specific memory emerges.

Not long after this picture was taken, the barn remains were cleaned up and a pole barn was built right alongside it.

I only bought the property 2-1/2 years ago, and discovered your site and the Librarian I worked with was very helpful in finding this picture. It sure is neat to see how places progress and change over the years.

This is taken in 1976. In 2010 it turned to a century farm that I live on and my brother farms. My father and grandfather have farmed it previously. It is a great way to capture your farmily history.

Thank you so much for all your work in searching the archives for the photographs. They bring back many old memories of growing up on the farm.

As far as some of the Farm's history. We know that it was a Wicker Farm that was passed down the generations until all the Wicker's had passed. The property had been sitting unihabitated and unused for over 15 years before we came to rescue it. When we bought it in 2005, the house had one room upstairs that had nails sticking out all over the walls. We assume this was where they dried their own seed corn. The barn was very large. I believe it had 16 horse stalls. We found an antique horse drawn stump puller in the hay loft in which we donated to the Jackson County Historical Society. We torn down the barn and saved all of it's beams. They were sold to a builder in South Carolina and are hopefully now a beautiful feature to someone's timber frame house.

For 40 years this was a Rients farm.

Albert Rients bought this 160 acre farm in 1918 for $200 an acre. An old granary and chicken house were replaced in 1930 and the farmhouse was remodeled in 1936. A basement was dug by hand and a cistern with a hand pump in the kitchen were added at this time. Electricity came to the farm in 1936, this bought many changes. The pump house being one of these, it housed the electric water pump which delivered water to the farm building. In 1941 the silo was put up. In 1945 an old barn was torn down and this large barn was built. It housed their horses and had stanchions for milking cows and a large hay mow to store the hay. The cap was put on the silo in 1946. The garage was built in the 1950's and the cattle barn in 1960's to replace old ones the were taken down.

Arnold Rients is in the garage/shop and he is working on the tailgate of a wagon. The family car, a new 1969 green Mercury by the garage and his 2 tractors can be seen in the granary and it's lean-to. The farm house was repainted in 1968 and the ladders can be seen by the house. Housewife Mae Rients had a large garden which is beside the driveway, and the garden tiller is in this garden.

The season is fall, noted by the corn field back of the grove and wagons with corn on them in the yard.

Arnold Rients, son of Albert Rients, was on this farm from 1958 till 1987 when he retired and the farm was bought by John Post, thus ending the 40 years of Rients' on this farm.