Norton Brothers Fruit Farm in Cheshire, Connecticut, closed after 268 years of operation and faced residential development. Two local residents purchased the property to preserve it as farmland instead of allowing development. Their efforts to maintain the land included securing $1.5 million from a town conservation fund. Residents had expressed deep disappointment over losing this piece of open land.
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