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Around Broadneck: Broadneck residents work to preserve farmland

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 11/23/09

The historic Radoff-Goshen house in Cape St. Claire sits on a hill on the Broadneck Peninsula, surrounded by a forest that has sprung up since the fields were last plowed.

Wendi Winters — For The Capital Ulmstead Estates resident Jack Neil, president of the Spriggs Farm Preservation Foundation Inc., reaches out to an old tree that once stood behind the water line on the Spriggs property, which lies along the Magothy River in Arnold.

Although hidden from view, the 22-acre property has numerous supporters who rallied to prevent the old farmhouse from being torn down several years ago. The farm was bought decades ago by the county's Board of Education for a middle school that never materialized.

The Goshen Farm Preservation Society Inc. has a Web site (www.goshenfarm.org), a Facebook page and last month held a successful...

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