Cattle and farms occupied the area throughout the early 1900s, until the it became parkland in the mid-1940s.
Cities and farms now occupy most of the region.
A farm occupied the present site of the Legg House at least as far back as 1820.
Lands zoned for residential farms and forests occupy about 13 percent of the total, mostly along the watershed's western edge.
This is especially true of southern Africa, where large commercial farms occupy the best farmland and rural economies are destitute.
The most common traditional farms occupy one acre (4,000 m2) each, typically in a canal-irrigated area along the banks of the Nile.
Pedler's farm occupied the flatter, western area of land near Bridge Road.
Twenty people have been killed and more than 1 200 farms illegally occupied.
New York's farm acreage has been declining for many years, and farms occupy only about one-fourth of the state.
The southern parts consist of forest, while farms and grain fields occupy the space in between.