Photo 27-OAS-2

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This is the Wing Family farm at 4449 Benetka Road, looking west toward my childhood home to the west (the well was being dug when this was taken). Paul Wing (1921-2008) was a contractor specializing in home construction, and revolutionized the subdivision boom of the mid-20th Century in Ashtabula County. The Wing Family purchased this farm from the Scribner Family in the 1940s and lived there until their deaths in 2008 and 2011. it is interesting to note that the structure protruding to the north of the barn was actually a one-room schoolhouse which was moved there from its original spot--the entrance to the present-day Forest Ridge subdivision on Plymouth-Gageville Road (constructed by the Wings).

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