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Mansfield, MO Real Estate News

By JudyAnn Lorenz, Virtual Marketing Consultant
(Bar JD Communications)
            Mansfield, Missouri is the brainchild of the 19th century railroad industry.  Mining, timber and agriculture offered product for the new rail system.Apples from Rocky Ridge Farm were shipped on the early railroad.  But, the most important product from the Farm was the Little House series of books.  You see, Rocky Ridge Farm was the last home of Laura Ingalls Wilder.   She and her husband, Almanzo, with their little daughter Rose moved to Mansfield in 1895.  They farmed, raising apples, and became part of the community. When the family was living in South Dakota, early in the marriage, they suffered a bout with diphtheria.  Almanzo went to back to work on the farm before being fully recovered and as a very young man, he suffered a stroke.  Rocky Ridge was a move they made aft...
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