Mr Norman Lawton in a pen of Silver Plymouth Rocks (reproduced with permission of Norman Lawton) A. C. Lawton & Sons (Production Bred Baby Chicks) was a small breeding company based in Foxboro, Massachusetts that finished operating about 1990. It was latterly run...
Henry Abbot moved with his parents Robert and Agnes Abbot and two brothers Dick and Tom and sister Agnes, from their home farm, Abbots Hall in Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland in 1882 to Norfolk. They had purchased the Rookery Farm in Thuxton. In Kirkby Lonsdale Henry...
Mr Mort. E. Atkinson purchased land at Hollywood Farm on Sept 1st 1913 with 800 good quality, American-bred S.C. White Leghorns and 300 Orpingtons. The farm was called Hollywood Hill because of the Holly trees planted by Mr C.D. Stimson. Mr Stimson was a wealthy...
The HQ building of Arbor Acres Farm Arbor Acres Farms Inc was started in 1917 near Glastonbury, Connecticut by Frank Saglio and his brothers, John and Charles. At the beginning it was a fruit and vegetable farm and the first chicken house was built from a discarded...
Administrative centre near Camden, N.S.W. opened in 1971 adjacent to the nucleus breeding complex. A.A. Tegel Pty. Ltd. began as J.E. Tegel and Sons (Eric, Albert and Norman) in 1920 with the purchase of 20 acres of land in Heath Road, Leppington, N.S.W. A mixed farm,...
The boat canal at Ocean View The official beginning of the broiler industry is officially credited to Mrs Cecile Steele of Ocean View, Delaware. Ocean View is a small village on the southern side of Indian River Bay, and was the location where George Ellis began his...
