The Edward M. Hodges Farm Papers contain the income, expense, and tax records of the Edward M. Hodges Farm from 1953 to 2000 with a few items related to soil and water conservation and four acreage maps of the farm.
Edward M. Hodges, an alumnus of North Carolina State University, farmed from 1952 until he retired for health reasons and sold the farm in 2000. He began farming with his father, James Edward Hodges, when he returned from the Korean War. At that time the farm was known as the Green Meadows Farm. The farm was located on the south side of North Carolina Highway 33 about 7 miles east of Chocowinity toward Aurora (what is known as the Hodges Stretch). The farm was originally a portion of the William Augustus Blount plantation, Meadowville. During the 1940s, before Ed joined the farming operation, his father raised turkeys on the farm and had a contract to supply turkeys to North Carolina State College.
Edward M. Hodges, an alumnus of North Carolina State University, farmed from 1952 until he retired for health reasons and sold the farm in 2000. He bagan farming with his father, James Edward Hodges, when he returned from the Korean War. At that time the farm was known as the Green Meadows Farm. The farm was located on the south side of North Carolina Highway 33 about 7 miles east of Chocowinity toward Aurora (what is known as the Hodges Stretch). The farm was originally a portion of the William Augustus Blount plantation, Meadowville. During the 1940s, before Ed joined the farming operation, his father raised turkeys on the farm and had a contract to supply turkeys to North Carolina State College.
When Ed joined the operation in the early 1950s, they raised Poll Hereford cattle, and on the land not used for pasture for the cattle, they raised corn, soy beans and hay. At some point in the early to mid-1960s the cattle business was no longer profitable so all the land was cultivated for the raising of corn, soybeans and wheat. The only deviation from this would be in the years of a major hurricane when the corn crop was blown down; they would purchase hogs and let them forage the corn fileds. The hogs would be sold when the corn crop had been consumed, usually in the spring.
Around 1980 James Hodges retired and left the farming operation. Ed had expanded by leasing neighboring farms and purchasing another farm. The former Green Meadows Farm (the name was dropped when the land was totally cultivated) remained the focal point of the operation. The farm was sold in 2000 to a Greenville, North Carolina, entrepreneur and now is the site of the One Fish, Two Fish, Catfish Farm.
The Edward M. Hodges Farm Papers contain the income, expense, and tax records of the Edward M. Hodges Farm from 1953 to 2000 with a few items related to soil and water conservation and four acreage maps of the farm.
This collection is arranged chronologically.
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[Identification of item], Edward M. Hodges Farm Papers, MC 00481, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Gift of Lalla Sidbury 2013 April (accession no. 2013.0124)
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[Identification of item], Edward M. Hodges Farm Papers, MC 00481, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The NC State University Libraries generally claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. Libraries staff are unable to advise on copyright and other legal matters; the user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Helpful resources for assessing copyright include Cornell Libraries' "Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain" and copyright.gov. This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information about identifiable living individuals, which may be protected under federal or state laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that there may be legal ramifications for disclosing this information.
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