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Steve Matthews feeds treats to the cows.
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The large empty field is owned by Alterman Trucking Company.
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The buildings have been recently renovated.
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The park has several diamonds.
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Bruce Holland inspects the new butterbean crop.
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Bruce Holland demonstrates soil quality in one of the north fields. The tilled area represents about five acres.
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Highway 178 bisects the Holland fields. A 5 acre tilled area on the north side of the road is prepared for the next crop.
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The entrance to the barn and house is on the far right of the photograph. The 5 acre tilled field can be seen on the other side of the road.
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A crew of local workers pick the beans.
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Bruce Holland inspects the cucumbers planted along a low fence.
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Green peanuts are available.
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Royal Star and Starbright Watermelons are the varieties of watermelons grown for harvest.
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This 15 acre field was planted in butterbeans. It is irrigated with water from a nearby holding pond.
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The irrigation line bisects a thirty acre field. The southern portion, show above, has been planted with pumpkins. The line of deciduous trees grow along Homer Holland Road.
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Homer Holland Road is accessed from Highway 178. It runs alongside of the Holland barn and home. The trees are deciduous water oaks and sweet gums.
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Water oaks and sweet gum trees line the west side of Homer Holland Road. The 15 acre pumpkin patch can be seen through the trees.
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The church is located at the corner of Chumukla Highway and 178.
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The little church is nestled between cotton fields in western Santa Rosa County.
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Mature pecan trees flank cotton fields on both sides of the road for several miles.
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The tree farm is located on Penton Road.
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The baseball field is no the west side of the school campus. This is a view from Home Plate facing to the west. The Concession Stand and Press Box can be seen to the left. Seating can be found behind Home Plate, along the 1st and 3rd Base lines to the dugouts, and along the fence on the Right and Left Field lines.
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The small building is the ticket booth for the ball field.
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The bleachers for the field are partially shaded.
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Ball players wait to take their turn in the dugout.
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This view of the batters mound faces north.
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Seating can be found behind Home Plate, along the 1st and 3rd Base lines to the dugouts, and along the fence on the Right and Left Field lines
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The Concession Stand and Press Box can be seen to the right.
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The west view of the rear of the concession/pressbox is on the left. The first base dugout is the one-story building on the right.
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Pecan trees divide the homestead's driveway from the adjacent fields.
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Corn is one of the crops grown in the Menonite community of Walnut Hill. There are several hundred acres of field corn planted for summer harvest on this farm.
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Walnut Hill is an area of gently rolling land settled by Mennonite farmers from Kansas.
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Stalks range from 36 inches to 42 inches.
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Most of the fields in this area are planted in 40 acre plots.
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The plowed field is planted in winter wheat.
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The farm is located on Highway 97.
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The house harmonizes with its surroundings because of low broad proportions and lack of ornamentation.
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The facade of the home faces west. There is an overstory of large water oaks. An adjoining garage apartment can be seen at the end of the driveway with the barn immediately to the rear.
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The style of architecture is often referred to as Craftsman. These dwellings display a fine degree of craftsmanship and are constructed of materials left as close as possible to their natural state.
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The walls are laid in quarried stone.
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The conical building is used for drying corn.
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The lean-to on the side of the barn is used as a chicken coop.
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Oak trees line the cotton field adjacent to the Escambia Grain Coop silos.
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This is the only farm cooperative grain elevator in northwest Florida.
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There are three main buildings in the complex. The office is on the left, the grain elevator is immediately behind the office building and the fertilizer house is on the right of the photograph.
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A spectacular view of Walnut Hill can be seen from the top of the silos. Hundreds of acres of farmland stretch to the northern horizon.
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Gobbler Road is in the Walnut Hill Community off Highway 97.
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There are thousands of acres in cultivation in the Walnut Hill community planted in a variety of crops.
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There are cotton fields stretching for several miles on both sides of Kansas Road.
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Mennonite farmers are making agriculture a viable way of life in Escambia County.
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The structure sits on the edge of a cotton field. The hand hewn pine logs are notched in a typical fashion for rural structures built before Victorian balloon-frame construction.The large porches surrounding the single-pen structure kept it shaded in the summer and provided extended work space.
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The singular room for living is is a rectangle roughtly 15 feet wide and 20 feet long. A 10-foot-wide porch extends around two sides of the house with a doorway in each of these two sides.
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The corner of the building shows square-hewn log construction with dove-tail notching.
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The corn crop will be used for silage to feed dairy cattle.
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The farm is located at the intertection of Morgan and Arthur Brown Road.
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The Van Pelt Dairy Farm is located on Highway 97 in the Walnut Hill community.
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Hundreds of acres of feed corn are grown along Highway 97.
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In between corn fields there are pastures were the dairy cows graze.
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Corn fields front Highway 97 for several miles.
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The south end of the Van Pelt Dairy Farm is bordered by Gobbler Road. There are approximately three miles of corn fields along Gobbler Road which end to the east on Sandy Hollow Road.
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The farm is located on Highway 97 in the Walnut Hill community.
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The farm buildings are surrounded by extensive fields in spring cultivation.
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The small farmhouse exhibits traditional Craftsman architectural style.
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The house is framed with an overstory of pecan trees.
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The fields can be seen from the side porch.
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A small barn is located to the east of the main house.
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The east side of the barn faces Highway 97.
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facade on cul de sac
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backyard