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Brooks family farm achieves historical status
Lula farm on National Register of Historic Places
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Jim, from left, Todd and Butch Boring are in front of their 140-year-old family home. Jim Boring still lives in the old house, and Butch Boring lives in Miami, but comes north often to help with the farm. “They talk every day,” Todd Boring said of his father and his uncle Jim. - photo by NAT GURLEY
The view looking out from the old windows has changed more than the view looking in. Outside, the once dirt Silver Shoals Road has become a paved two-lane street traveled by cars and trucks instead of mules and wagons. For nearly 140 years, the white farmhouse on the Brooks Family Farm in Lula stood on stone pillars pulled from a nearby creek as the world around it changed.