Thursday, October 25, 2007

When Land was Really Cheap

There was an anonymous comment posted on our Knott's Berry Farm article today, about how land was so cheap, it was being given away...

There is a story in my family, that a Great Uncle, Homer Clemons, owned an orange grove in the area. He got the land when it was so cheap, they gave you an acre if you subscribed to the local farm newspaper for a year. Two years subscription got you two acres. The story goes that he left his land to two brothers, who sold it to a man named Knotts. I don't have any proof of this story, but he and wife Belle are on the 1920 & 1930 census. Both are buried at Fairhaven Memorial Park.
I'm not sure how a newspaper would buy up land, just to give it away, or maybe perhaps they were giving away land they didn't need anymore. But imagine owning a couple acres of land in the middle of Buena Park right now?

1 comment:

  1. re: . But imagine owning a couple acres of land in the middle of Buena Park right now?

    I can't imagine. I grew up in Buena Park in the 60s and went to Buena Terra elementary school. But I moved away in 1970 to Ohio. I have no idea how Buena Park is now. How is it different from what it was in the 60s? IOW qualify buena park right now cause I ain't been there in 38 years.

    Donna

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