A2B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 3, 1987
Octorara Area School District
made plans last week to nearly
triple its acreage on the boundary
of West Fallowfield and Highland
Townships. The school board vot
ed unanimously to buy the
103-acre Naaman King farm
across Highland Road from the
school campus.
‘The farm is not for sale,” Naa
man King declared.
Dr. Richard McAdams, district
superintendent, said the school
directors have been discussing
expansion since last October. Fif
teen acres are required immediate
ly for athletic fields, necessitated
by the establishment of an
intermediate-level interscholastic
program last spring. In addition,
given Chester County’? westward
development frenzy, need for a
new elementary school is antici
pated within two years, according
to McAdams.
“We had no choice but to con-
Octorara School campus. The school board plans to use the
land for athletic fields and perhaps an elementary school.
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School District Plans Acreage Increase
sider taking farmland,” McAdams
said. “We are surrounded by
farms.” The superintendent stated
that the school board feels strongly
that all the district’s schools should
be on one campus, as they have
been since 1980.
Of the four farms adjoining
school property that the directors
considered, according to McA
dams, the King farm is the only
one where the family would not
have to be relocated if the land is
taken over by the school district.
King lives on another farm and
rotates crops of potatoes, com,
wheat, soybeans and buckwheat
on the 103 acres in question.
However, in 1984, King sold the
house, bam and 10 acres of the
Highland Road farm to his son and
daughter-in-law, Lowell and Joy
ce, with first option to purchase the
remainder of the farm. Lowell pre
sently works in the trucking indus-
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Naaman King harvests potatoes on his 103-acre farm, which the Octorara Area
School District wishes to buy to triple its acreage.
try, but, would like to return to
fanning says his father. “What will
he do with a big bam and no land?”
King asked.
King’s wife Marian, said that
McAdams approached her hus
band last March about eight acres
for athletic fields. “I first said no,”
King explained, “and then thought,
I don’t want to be a meany. So I
offered them 15 acres along High
land Road through a realtor. They
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never got back to the realtor, and
now they want to take my whole
farm.”
“It’s very traumatic,” said Mar-
ian King.
King allots 160 acres to potatoes
on the several parcels of land he
farms in West Fallowfield Town
ship. He said fewer acres will pre
vent him from rotating the potato
crop every three years as Penn
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“I’m just trying to keep what we
have and keep our sons in
agriculture.”
King has until October 12 to
respond to the board’s offer, the
amount which neither he nor
school officials have disclosed. If
the two parties can’t come to
terms, the Octorara district may
take the land by eminent domain,
according to state law.
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