This area was farmed with dynomite. I sit on property that was in my family since the first records were kept here. It was out of the family(to another pioneer family) for two generations before I bought it back. I'm told that my great-aunt, who lives less than a quarter mile from here in a stone house, has pictures of this place being blasted by my grandfather as a young man but she won't speak directly to our branch of the family so I won't get to see them until she passes or a cousin brings them by.

Her place, which borders mine, still has sunken areas that collect water as she was still blasting in the seventies and that's the last time any major changes occured on the property.