Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-12-28
ONLY $50 FOR A HOMESTEAD
as Farms, worth over $500, and 6Aoo Lot

&c Farms, worth over $780, and 64OO Lots,
to be distributed among 500 subscribers
Ia ZACH subscriber is entitled to Lots, 25 by FRS
I=;1 = 100 feet lying together, or PRIZE FARM ES
OF from to 20 acres. The shares limited -ea-@
at s?-payabe$5 when subscribed for, IS on day of dis
tribution and balance in monthly nsalments of So About
500 shares now subscribed
The Lots situated in the village of HERMANNvILLE,
mile east of Lake Road Station the Long Island
Road County of Suffolk and so miles from the city of New
York. Car and Engine House is now beng built,
this village and the last team leaving Brooklyn late each
afternoon stops this station, and returns early in the
morning Ii is of the heaiest places in the u. States
within one mile of Ronkonkoma Lake. which is about three
miles in circumference osnguar transparency and great
DEPTH with abundance uf fish. The village is but miles
distant from the great South Bay which miles wide and
40 miles long, abndany supplied with oysters, clas and
! fish of various kinds.
These Lands will produce much per with the same
cultivation, any land within 80 miles of New York The
Suffolk County Agricultural Society, meeting Gath
Sept 1880 awarded premiums for the production of these
lands, as may be seen by the following letter:
LAKE ROAD, Oct. aeth 1850.
certify that have raised during the past season very
best OF Corn and Pototoes $50 bushels per Egg Plants
Island Railroad Lake Road from which received pre-
MUM at the Suffolk County Agricultural Fair, held sepem
Also, Peas Beans, Onions squashes, Pumpkins, Beets
(sgneaa IRA LHoM zEDIEU
! To Charles Wood, III John-st, NY
Hermanvle Station is located the borders Of the
Long Island Railroad where cars several times day to
and level and the surrounding country perfectly healthy
and within few miles of this place highly cultivated and
valuable having been settled for than $50 years and
where similar lands sell from $50 5000 per acre.
The distribution will take place in a short time by Com
mee to be selected by the subscribers from among their
number. The person having he first choice will be entitled
1925 only 500 Farm worth $1,000; the
70 Is acre Farm worth $500 the third, 6 Farm
worth $780, the 9Th, Il acre Farm, worth 500 the 5
IL Farm, worth $780, the 9Th, 10 Farm,worth
$500; the 18th aud 6th each acre Farm worth $500
the 9Th 10th and l1h, each Farm, worth $780, The
l2th l3th 4th, 18th, each acre Farm, worth $3.50 the
18TH Eth 18th, l9th and Goth, each Farm, wortt
$500 and all the Others will be entitled Village Lots,
each - by 100 eet lying together There are no blanks
this is not lotteryeyery person gets for 1925 handsome
Lot of Ground equal to city lots
MGhnef Of Distribution Of HerannUiUe Lots and Prize
Farms. The of distribution will be follows All
the numbers on the Map, from to 900, will be put into
wheel and first number drawn from the wheel win be
entitled the first Prize and if the first number drawn
or taken out OF the wheel happens to be $50 275 then the
scrpon number Of $50 or 275 or whatever the correspond
ing number may be- will be entitled the first Prize Farm
and proceeding until all the numbers drawn out
The lands good represented as good as any
new land on the Island, and when Cultivated win produce
/ III the highest degree.
III land heavily timbered some portions are
now covered with thrifty growth of Young wood eak
pine Wool is plenty and generally cheap in that mart
of he Island. Firewood is cheap, which is suitable
to be cut into cordwood for the NewYork market is
uniform price, and has for great many years been always
considered a cash article on the Island.
There is material on the land for fencing-good
ches ut rails can be had within a few miles Of these
lands in abundance. All building. materials be had
the depots of Brooklyn and eenport and many inter-
mediate places, at the usual market prices There are
running into the Great South Bay, which remarkable
for their purity and never fail indeed dry weather makes
very little change in them; they unfaing wells are
OF various depthsj probably these lands in
middle region of he Island the average depth will be
about 25 feet at Hermanyie the ground is higher they
are deeper.
There are churches ard schools within two or three
miles of the village and within four miles, mills factories
stores and villages All the privileges OF old settled
coutry to be here and the people OF Suffolk
~ pride themselves being highly moral orderly and
religious people All Of my subscribers persons of
speciality
The land can be very easily cleared and the of SET
Element Will depend almost entirely upon the settler can
lay out as much little he chooses do not know
OF any objections to the Place the land for
ment and the same labor and industry which make sue
cessi and prosperous settlements in ther parts of
country bestowed upon these lands fail produce
| favorable results
The climate every particular healthy and pleasant
the roads good and always passable, all of
the year-the Winters are short aud mild, compared the
Winters the MAN, to the north Of the Iighia dshere
Island
What is remarkable crop is sci ON injured by drouth-
there no part Of the country where there little in
jury from drouih Long Island is there any injury
from we-there is no wet or cold land the island All
the ahd along the margin OF the streams can be made high
~ valuable a small cost for there such Thing rs
food or reshet as in the interior part of the country, by
which often very great damage is done-such
the carrying off bridge, the breaking of mill dam
with great damage is almost unhead of Long island
The streams and bays abound in fish and wild fowl great
abundance, and every variety
~ In consequence of the great number of letters from
all parts of the country desiring information of these
it has been found necessary answer them in this form
| GPAppy TO THOs. WOOD, Staoner, III John-st near
PEARL or CHARLES WOOD at the same place. either of
whom will receive remances and forward receipts there
for by return of mail They will gatuitousy furnish
maps and pamphlets of the property and cheery give
such other information may be desired.
CHARLES WOOD, III John-st N. Y.
1T References can be made to Hon. Henry Megs and
Cen Chandler, of the American Institute 35 Broadway
r. vi SaDdfords, Porter Striker, rs Broadway, N ".
Levy Dodge of Dodge q Co.'S Express, 1e West st, NJ
~ Peck, SOC Safest; and Alden J. Spooner Fronst
Brooklyn, N. Y; o. Holman, Sationcr Boston Mass; t.
T. Pease, Bookseller, Albany, ~ Wv D. Palmer, Pha,
delphia, Pa, and Boston,
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