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Visitors still come to Civil War battlefields to ask why our great-great-grandfathers killed one another there, and whether we can resolve the stubborn differences they left behind. But the battlefields are more than memorials. They are also green, open spaces – natural reserves surrounded by rapidly expanding suburbs.
John Christopher Hedler, a native of Bayern, Germany, contributed to the agricultural foundation of the Midwest when immigrating to Missouri and purchasing his first expanse of farmland on April 15, 1857, according to a deed signed by President Buchanan.