LAKE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Lake County, Ohio Biographies Project by
Deb Breniser
rbcobb@ncweb.com
January 6, 2000
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From the 1915 Lake County, Ohio Atlas


SPRINGDALE FARM is owned by William M. Bland, Post Office Address, Perry, Ohio. 
It contains 51.95 acres on the South Ridge Road, one mile from Perry Village, 
which is also its principal market. Although not so large in acreage as many 
farms in Lake County, its products are quite extensive and include all soil 
products common to this section, and in the fruit department will be found 
grapes of the Concord variety, apples peaches, and cherries. The soil products 
embrace corn, oats alfalfa, hay etc., Never failing wells and springs furnish 
an abundant water supply and its name is derived from a fine spring located on 
the farm. A modern farm residence of seventeen rooms and the usual out buildings
complete its building improvements. The farm's surface is mostly level and it's 
soil a gravelly clay loam. Mr. Bland purchased of J.F. Brown in 1908. He married
Miss Erdine M. Smith, February 1, 1894. Their family consists of two children, a
daughter and son both living.