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1887 -
Harvesting sugar cane in front of Grove Farm entrance
(Sam Wilcox
on horseback, far right).
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Grove Farm
Sugar Plantation
G.N. realized that his plantation
lacked enough water, which is the key to successfully growing
sugar. His first major effort was to undertake the engineering and
digging of an extensive irrigation ditch, in which water was
brought from the mountains to his struggling sugar fields.
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