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R            Fruitville Farm.

9                      Pamphlet, ca. 1910.

                                    One item.

 

 

 

Fruitville Farm and Torreytown were promoted by Col. Jay L. Torrey of West Plains, Mis­souri, around 1910.  Small farms were to be purchased by individuals, who would live in the “ideal village” of Torreytown.  The advertising brochure included testimonials by agricultural ex­perts as to the excellent productivity of the land.  Also included in the pamphlet are en­dorse­ments of the enterprise by leading citizens of West Plains and Howell County, including the Mayor of West Plains and officers of the West Plains Bank and the Ozark Commercial Congress.  Farms of vary­ing sizes were to be grouped around the “ideally planned village of Torreytown, ...  where the pur­chaser can live in town and farm his nearby land.”

 

The back of the pamphlet has a panoramic view of the Fruitville Farm, showing the office, headquarters, blacksmith shop, mule barns, and saw mill.

 

 

 

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