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A NEW DEVELOPMENT The original homeowners, Alice and Trig Horton, raised their family on a bit more land than the Andrews have now. Moving from New Jersey to Hillsborough after a long search for farmland in the early ‘80s, the Hortons sought to create a cattle farm and build their version of a historic Federal farmhouse on 500 acres. “The farmer who owned the land and grew soybeans and winter wheat there didn’t have the land for sale formally,” recalls Alice,
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“but he wasn’t dumb when he saw Yankees coming south to buy land, and we quickly achieved a sale.” They worked with Durham architect Tommy O’Shea to design the house and hired Alf Sjoberg to provide old boards for flooring. “When we first walked the property – which had no driveway except a dirt one back to the big barn – we walked through fields of soybeans with daisies abundant at the edges,” Alice says. “My husband visually located the highest spot on the property to build [the] house, overlooking a lake.” The Hortons lived there for 30 years before selling it in 2005 to their daughter and sonin-law, who raised their own family there for a decade. Now they’ve turned those original 500 acres into 10-acre home sites as the developers of Pleasant Green Farms. Characterized by wide-open skies, rolling terrain and pockets of trees, the community was planned so that none of the homes on the 33 lots block the view of the neighbors.