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The remaining buildings and structures are agricultural in nature, and were built from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. The original facility to care for the poor and mentally ill was built in 1855 (no longer extant) and wings were added around 1861.
The 18th-century French Consul in Egypt, De Pauw, blamed the abandonment of the embalming practices of the Ancient Egyptians and the unsuitability of modern burial practices for the Nile delta for the area becoming "a hotbed of the plague". [54] Some colonial commentary of this kind seemed informed by attitudes underpinning the ruling powers.
A common definition of what constituted a plantation is that it typically had 500 to 1,000 acres (2.0 to 4.0 km 2) or more of land and produced one or two cash crops for sale. [3] Other scholars have attempted to define it by the number of enslaved persons.
Friedberger, Mark W. "Handing Down the Home Place: Farm Inheritance Strategies in Iowa" Annals of Iowa 47.6 (1984): 518–36. online; Friedberger, Mark. "The Farm Family and the Inheritance Process: Evidence from the Corn Belt, 1870–1950." Agricultural History 57.1 (1983): 1–13. uses Iowa census and sales data; Friedberger, Mark.
The 2022 U.S. ag census showed Iowa had lost nearly 586,000 farm acres in the five years since 2017. Over 20 years, Iowa has lost 1.7 million acres of ag land. Land for renewable energy projects ...
On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women's Activism Since 1945 (University of Iowa Press; 2013) 188pp; covers women in the Farm Bureau, the Farmers Union, the National Farm Organization, and the Porkettes. Friedberger, Mark W. "Handing Down the Home Place: Farm Inheritance Strategies in Iowa" Annals of Iowa 47.6 (1984): 518–536. online
With white settlers lured by the prospects of available land to farm, Iowa grew another 251% in the following decade and another 77% by 1870, when the state first topped 1 million people.
The first occurrence of organised solid waste management system appeared in London in the late 18th century. [13] A waste collection and resource recovery system was established around the 'dust-yards'. The main constituent of municipal waste was the coal ash ('dust') which had a market value for brick-making and as a soil improver.