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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron" data-source="post: 1587573" data-attributes="member: 1682"><p>People used to farm out of necessity. As soon as other options for jobs became available, most left. People weren't stupid, they knew it was a miserable existence to farm back then. There was a family on every 160 acres in this area and some on even smaller parcels than that. The Depression drove out close to a 1/4 by the late 1930's. Then an iron mine opened 3 hours away in 1943 and close to 1/2 left in the 10 years that followed. A man could make more in one month at the mine then he could in an entire year on the farm. Majority that left abandoned the farms entirely. School boards and municipalities were nervous as the tax revenue took a huge hit. No one had extra money to be buying tax sale properties locally, so all of the empty properties were bundled and sold to an investment firm in Toronto around 1952, which then sold them to American investors. Many of those properties are still owned by those same investor families. Two 160 acre parcels down the road from me were both bought for less than $70 in 1952. </p><p></p><p>My grandparents lived 30 miles from the nearest town of a few hundred people and went to town once a week in the 1950's/60's. They were considered fairly well-off. Most couldn't consider such a drive that often. Lots didn't even have vehicles. Today people drive 4 times that distance to work and back, every day, and think nothing of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron, post: 1587573, member: 1682"] People used to farm out of necessity. As soon as other options for jobs became available, most left. People weren't stupid, they knew it was a miserable existence to farm back then. There was a family on every 160 acres in this area and some on even smaller parcels than that. The Depression drove out close to a 1/4 by the late 1930's. Then an iron mine opened 3 hours away in 1943 and close to 1/2 left in the 10 years that followed. A man could make more in one month at the mine then he could in an entire year on the farm. Majority that left abandoned the farms entirely. School boards and municipalities were nervous as the tax revenue took a huge hit. No one had extra money to be buying tax sale properties locally, so all of the empty properties were bundled and sold to an investment firm in Toronto around 1952, which then sold them to American investors. Many of those properties are still owned by those same investor families. Two 160 acre parcels down the road from me were both bought for less than $70 in 1952. My grandparents lived 30 miles from the nearest town of a few hundred people and went to town once a week in the 1950's/60's. They were considered fairly well-off. Most couldn't consider such a drive that often. Lots didn't even have vehicles. Today people drive 4 times that distance to work and back, every day, and think nothing of it. [/QUOTE]
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