Ground Breaking Day, 1924

Details

Owned by:  Unknown

Type:  Grounds

Medium:  Photographs

Artwork Reference:  82353

Description

Dozens of automobiles are parked along the narrow dirt path now called Medinah Road. The scene is from the Groundbreaking Day event, Tuesday, September 16, 1924. Buildings in the scene are on the Broker Farm with a forest of elms, hickories, thornapples, red hawes, crabapples, and giant oaks, some hundreds of years old on the surrounding grounds.