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Inell and Cochran Caldwell’s farm was recently recognized at a Centennial Family Farm. This sharecropper’s house still stands at the farm on its orginal foundation. Cochran Caldwell looks out over the Flint River at the eastern-most part of the farm.

100 years of family farming

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Rachel McDaniel
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Saturday, April 2. 2011
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A beautiful farm place bordered by the Flint River on the eastern edge of the county has been farmed by the same Pike County family for more than 100 years.

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#1 dannyb on 04/03/11 at 09:11 AM
Congratulations, it's folks and farms like this that make Pike Co such a great place to call home.
#2 elcie on 04/03/11 at 10:19 AM
Some of my best childhood memories are from this place. My daddy used to take me fishing on the Flint River on the back side of Mr. Caldwell's property.

He'd buy some moon pies, vienna sausages, soda crackers, NeHi sodas and NuGrapes and we'd spend the day catching fish- or not, depending how our luck was running that day. Just being with my daddy and hearing him tell all those wonderful stories about his life was priceless.

Thank you, Mr. Caldwell and thank you, daddy, for giving me memories I wish every young girl could have. Forty years later, I miss those times and I miss my daddy.
#3 Me on 04/03/11 at 01:04 PM
I wonder how much they have paid in taxes over the years on that property? I'm sure they are due a break by now. Better yet I wonder if there are any other land owners in Pike that have been on the same piece of property for 100 years?

Small town America and good ole country folk, God Bless them.........
#4 Farmer on 04/04/11 at 12:38 AM
Only 50 years but am trying to keep Pike a nice place to live. The developers tried to ruin Pike before th social engineeered economy went into he tank.
#5 Anonymous on 04/04/11 at 10:46 AM
And the CFA has a plan to ruin it now. CFA is solely controled by one developer, David Hughes. Watch out Pike Here Comes Clayco.
#6 Taxed Enough on 04/04/11 at 05:30 PM
Also, if he ever harvested timber from that property he paid additional taxes to the county for that. Can't help but wonder if the founding fathers intended for citizens to pay taxes for cutting down trees.
#7 fat bass tard on 04/04/11 at 08:11 PM
you do know that hughes already has several dozen acres that is already able to be developed that he has chosen not to develop.

seems strange to leave that land undeveloped when he is just a greedy developer.
#8 Anonymous on 04/05/11 at 12:45 AM
David Hughes is just one of Clayton Counties advance men. There are ex Clayco commissioners that own "land" in Pike and the champion, Crandall Bray, has been in the county telling people how to do the take over. The real Pike residents need to stand up. Just check the history of Clayton County zoning. They even had a zoning administrator living in a builders house free. The ony thing that stopped their take over of Pike was the recession and housing failures. They even had a plant in the zoning office.
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