A marker in Linwood Nature Preserve in Gainesville points out barbed wire grown over through the middle of a large tree. Obviously, decades ago there was a fenced-in pasture. That area off Thompson Bridge Road was the home to dairy and/or cattle farms.
Column: Forest grows where Gainesville milk cows once grazed
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