By 1855 he began acquiring large land tracts, which he would subdivide into lots for sale in the 1870s.

Their parents were sharecroppers or hired hands on the large land tracts which survived from the earlier time.

The club's land tract was surrounded by rural life until the late 1970s when commercial interests started encroaching.

As adventurers set out to survey the area, they established land tracts in the 1700s, many before the Revolutionary War.

Regardless of this, no land tracts of such size were available closer to the city, anyway.

In 1832, he decided to turn his attention to the extensive land tracts he held in the area.

These states sold the land tracts to private parties to raise funds for canal construction.

The estimated value of the 325-acre land tract was only $8,000.

The legal case continues regarding the title deed of the land tract which is a government controlled property.

It includes several separate land tracts with many natural communities and habitats for wildlife.