Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Grandpa Fisher's Farm




The farmhouse, and the farm, where my grandmother Della grew up is still there and in use today. Her nieces took me on a tour of the area during my visit to Albion.


The house has been expanded since the old days when Della grew up in the house. Essentially, the front part of the house, to the right of the TV antenna in the photo, was the original house that Della grew up in.


The old barn is also still there. Plus several newer outbuildings that are part of the active farm operation today. I didn't stop and try to get to know the current owners and don't know if there have been one or several owners since the Fisher family sold the farm.


The farm is south of Golden Gate, a small community built around an old railroad depot. I'll post separately about Golden Gate. The old road from Golden Gate to the Fisher farm is no longer in use, and the new way to get there is to drive over a few miles of gravel road. Not shell roads like in Florida. I'm talking large diameter gravel. The roads are not paved because they traverse the bottomlands (floodplain) of the Little Wabash River. The house is just east of the river and Grandpa Fisher owned lands on both sides of the river. The nieces talked about crossing the old wooden bridge to the west side of the river to collect pecans. The columns of the old bridge are still there, although they are mostly hidden by vegetation. The wooden plank structure collapsed a few years ago. The river is only about a mile from the house and there is a dirt/gravel road that runs along the riverside.

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