Photo 12-SGR-36

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The house is gone as well as all of the buildings in this photo however many of the rows of trees remain.

Ralph and John Mallow's farm on Lower Bellbrook Rd, bordering Arrowhead Subdivision. The Mallow brothers lived there with their mother in the brick farmhouse that was over 140 years old when on April 3, 1974, an F5 tornado touched down in Windsor Park subdivision and proceeded to destroy Arrowhead Subdivision and this farm, along with most of downtown Xenia. The farm is still there, but the 140 year old two story house was replaced by a one story house and most, if not all of the outbuildings and greenhouses weren't replaced, except for one barn that was replaced free of charge from the builder.

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