...naming of farms became fashionable at some identifiable point?... I'd guess the Gilded Age\Gay 90's, at least in the US Mid Uncle’s Sam’s expanded acres There’s an old, secluded glade Where grey Puritans and Quakers Still grow fervid in the shade; And the same great elms and beeches That once graced the ancestral farm, Bending to the old men’s speeches, Lend their words an echo’s charm. Laurel, clematis, and vine Weave green trellises about, And three maples and a pine Shut the mucker-village out. Yet the smoke of trade and battle Cannot quite be banished hence, And the air-line to Seattle Whizzes just behind the fence -George Santayana ++++++++++++++ A not so genteel name in this county: Duyck's Peachy Pig Farm
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