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An orchard is an intentional plantation of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production. Orchards comprise fruit- or nut-producing trees that are generally grown for commercial production. Orchards are also sometimes a feature of large gardens, where they serve an aesthetic as well as a productive purpose. [1]
Hard Bargain Farm is the former country estate and working farm of Alice and Henry Ferguson. It is located at 2001 Bryan Point Road in Accokeek, Maryland , overlooking the Potomac River . The property, now a smaller portion of the 330 acres (130 ha) they purchased, was developed by them into a "country garden" .
This MA family-run farm, which grows over 50 varieties of apples, is one of the top apple orchards in the country, according to USA Today poll.
Ferguson is a ghost town, a former lumber-mill settlement, in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. [2] It was a company town owned by Northern lumbermen Francis Beidler and Benjamin F. Ferguson , both of Chicago.
Ferguson unrest, protests and civil disorder following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Our Lady of Ferguson, Christian icon of the Virgin Mary; Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the "separate but equal" segregation doctrine
The church bought the original 54,000-acre (220 km 2) tract in 1950 and over 50 years, the ranch grew to more than 312,000 acres (1,260 km 2). In 1997 it was the world's largest beef ranch, and the land was worth an estimated $858 million.
The population of Ferguson continued to grow rapidly during the first six decades of the twentieth century, from 1,015 people in 1900 to 22,149 people in 1960, an average growth rate of 5% per year. The ethnic composition of Ferguson has shifted, however. In 1970, 99% of the population of Ferguson was white and 1% black. In 1980, the proportion ...