Stop in for a cup of coffee
Yup... that's about right. Frontier living for the Scotch-Irish. English didn't want them on the prime, Eastern land.
Well some of the settled in Maryland in the 1700's. They bought some acres and the farm quickly grew.
A group of locals wanted to lease some land from my family to develop a town.
The lease was written for 100 years. At the end of the lease they either got the land back or paid for the value of what was on the land.
Fast forward the town became the city of Baltimore.
The payment owed was fought in court for years and years ending in a Supreme Court decision in the 50's. The decision in general stated the city and what stood far out valued the land it was on, no one expect a city like this to develop...bla, bla, bla, you don't get chit.
My Grandpa when I was a kid would hear Balitmore mentioned on the news and it would produce a slew of curse words.
Now today as far as I'm concerned, they can have it.