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Great Plans for New Peach Orchards
A major Sandhills development is announced led by H. A. Page Jr, S. B. Saunders, J. R. Page, and Frank Page. The Gates Farm at Hoffman near Aberdeen, 5,000 acres, will form a corporation with $400,000 capital to plant the largest NC orchard, potentially the nation's. Broadacres aims to root 1,000 acres in time, with two thousand acres atop a Broad ridge, yielding a vast peach belt linked to Seaboard and Norfolk Southern lines. The plan envisions an almost continuous peach landscape from Yass to Marsden within five years, transforming the Sandhills into a major fruit region.
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Sandhill
H. A. Page, Jr
B. Saunders
J. R. Page
Frank Page
Gates Farm
Hoffman
Aberdeen
B. B. Saunders
North Carolina
United States
Seaboard
Broadacres Company
Broad Ridge
Broadacres
Yass
Marsden
Norfolk Southern
Cawdor
Rockfish Road
Montrose
Sandhills
Drowning Creek
Little Pedee
Broadacres Farm
Highland Pines Inn
Southern Pines