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1000+ acres in Lorain County won't be gobbled up for suburban sprawl

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Southern Lorain County acreage won't be gobbled up for suburban sprawl thanks to Babcock clan

SCOT ALLYN, Morning Journal Writer

09/16/2007

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Joan and Jarvis Babcock stand in front of their Civil War era home.  

ROCHESTER TOWNSHIP -- While 21st-century suburban sprawl gobbles up the rich Ohio soil that lured settlers west in the 18th and 19th centuries, one farmer in the southern part of Lorain County has made sure his family's thousand acres will never yield to bulldozers, steamrollers, rooftops and pavement.

 

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great find and great news too!

Interesting...

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