Harford Legacy Farm Commemorative Book

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Rockey Farm est. 1922 - Street, MD

Current Owners: George Rockey Original Purchaser: Charles Franklin Rockey Current Acreage: 47 Current Agricultural Products or Services: corn and beans Preserved I was born in the house and have lived there all my life. I am 84 years old. My grandfather had Woodland Examination in April 1930, recorded in the State Department of Forest Report of 1930. Grandfather – Charles F Rockey 1922 – 1940 Death, Grandmother – Lidia Rockey willed to by Charles 1940, Father & Mother – Eugene F & Alice V Rockey 1941 Deeded from Lidia, George Rockey bought from his parents on January 1, 1973, Wife Margaret was added to Deed and Children were added to the Deed.

Harford County's History of Land Preservation

Jennifer Wilson

In 1967, Harford County’s state senator William S. James helped create Maryland Environmental Trust, the Nation’s first statewide land preservation program. The program conserves land through donated easements. In 1977, the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation (MALPF) became one of the Nation’s first programs to buy preservation easements to compensate owners for their development rights. The MALPF program continues to this day. As development threatened to change their beloved landscape forever, Harford County farmers and citizens sought more tools to protect the land from development. Voters in 1991 passed a referendum creating the Harford County Land Preservation Program, which has become a national model and now ranks 2nd in the nation for acres preserved by a local program.