While many refer to gardening as a hobby today, gardening was a necessity for survival nearly 90 years ago during the Great Depression. And contrary to what you may think, not everyone knew how to garden back then.
By 1933, there were three large government-funded community gardens in Portsmouth as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and its nationwide subsistence gardens program, which were also known as the emergency gardens, relief gardens and welfare gardens.
Two subsistence garden plots were on city property at the New Franklin School and Atlantic Heights School. The city’s third and ultimately largest of the garden plots was on land in the West End owned by the Portsmouth Building Association. The land was part of its Westfield Park housing development off Islington Street in in the vicinity of Aldrich, Thaxter and Spinney roads. The Portsmouth Building Association was a group of businessmen and members of the Ports
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Fisher Properties LLC out of Portland is turning former office space at 154 Mount Auburn Ave., seen Friday in Auburn, into a marijuana cultivation operation and future retail sales shop.
Growing, schooling, laying foundations it’s an all-Auburn Buzz.
First up: A sizeable new marijuana operation on Mount Auburn Avenue across from Home Depot.
Fisher Properties LLC received a permit last month for a $420,000 project turning former office space at 154 Mount Auburn Ave. into a cultivation site with a retail storefront to come.
The project is described in architectural plans with the city as being finished in two phases, with the first “the build-out of the cultivation area, including all spaces except for retail, fulfillment and the safe room … with phase two work to follow shortly after completion of phase one.”
Princeton City Council supports housing development plans
Princeton City Council supports housing development plans By Brady Williams | May 5, 2021 at 6:51 PM CDT - Updated May 5 at 6:51 PM
PRINCETON, Ind. (WFIE) - The city council in Princeton provided a letter supporting a planned project to build 24 townhomes on the site of the old Franklin School.
The plan would involve demolishing the building and reworking the entire block.
Michel Dillon said he’s lived across the street from the old Franklin School for a long time.
He said the construction of townhomes might not change his life too much.
“I think it could be alright, it’s not like there hasn’t been people in there anyways,” he said. “There’s been homeless people going in there and sleeping and stuff.”
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Franklin School kindergarten students line up to receive sunflower seeds from their teacher Kimberly Wolner Thursday afternoon in Eveleth. The students are learning about plants and will have the opportunity to grow their flowers over the summer.
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Franklin School kindergarten students push their sunflower seeds into cups of potting soil as they learned about plants as a class project Thursday afternoon in Eveleth.
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In early Kewanee, coal was king
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When the purchasing committee for the Wethersfield colonists arrived in 1836 to buy land in Henry County, they found coal in Section 19 of what became Wethersfield Township. After the settlers arrived the next year, they opened what likely was the first coal mining operation in Henry County to power their saw and grist mills.
By the time the railroad began surveying for its route in 1851, the colonists were already aware of coal in Section 29 of what would become Kewanee Township. Not long after the village which would become Kewanee was platted and the first train arrived in 1854, coal mining operations began in the township.