Fourth generation Leelanau native Peggy Core, 77, is a proud land steward of the family farm “Rex Dobson Ruby Ellen Farm” in Bingham Township.
“I’ve gone north and south and east and west, but I’ve always come back. And I’ve been to Europe a couple of times, but I have one foot in the dirt here. My history is here. My family is here,” Core said.
William Core homesteaded the Bingham Township property in 1865 after service in the Union Army, beginning the farm’s nearly 150 years of continuous ownership by one family.
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