Photo 141-BPO-31

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These are not greenhouses. Probably a mink or chinchilla ranch. Long gone, the red pin marks the former location.

This was a mink farm, all the sheds are gone but the main barn still stands.

In the 1959 directory this was listed as the Sprague Poultry Farm.

Interesting, the chicken farm was 3 houses down to the west.

Yes, that was the Powell turkey farm in 1959.

I know the Spragues had chickens, didn't know about turkeys. This house has always been the haska fur farm.

Ahh, you got it. The directory lists the Haska Fur Farm two houses east of the Sprague poultry farm. So this is the fur farm and there were two poultry farms to the west of it.

Going east it was Powell turkey farm (5th house from Ranfield Rd on the south side), Webb Miller, Robert MacDonald, Sprague poultry farm, Emil Roliff, Earl Berger, then the Haska Fur farm.

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