We own 16 quarters and there were 4 yard sites on them excluding our own (maybe 5...absolutely no sign of one where there was supposedly one).
The snow gave us perfect conditions to have the track hoe come in and get rid of the last remnants of buildings (mostly wooden bins) in the last two yards.
Now there is no sign that a homestead was once there....but yard sites seem to offer reminders of the past, treasures of all sorts that someone once lived there turn up regularly...offered up from the soil that the passage of time slowly buried.
Ironically, when the places were first homesteaded, the pioneers had to break land and erect buildings, make "improvements", to prove their homestead....now we are destroying any sign of their existence and consider it "making improvements". Lol... what a change in perspective.
Take care people.
The snow gave us perfect conditions to have the track hoe come in and get rid of the last remnants of buildings (mostly wooden bins) in the last two yards.
Now there is no sign that a homestead was once there....but yard sites seem to offer reminders of the past, treasures of all sorts that someone once lived there turn up regularly...offered up from the soil that the passage of time slowly buried.
Ironically, when the places were first homesteaded, the pioneers had to break land and erect buildings, make "improvements", to prove their homestead....now we are destroying any sign of their existence and consider it "making improvements". Lol... what a change in perspective.
Take care people.
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