Usually, the compensation was about one third of the original farm.
The suburb has taken its name from the original farm established 1830.
Over time various sections of the original farm were sold to new farmers in the district.
The mansion stood until 1965 and other buildings of the farm's original 35 survive.
Seven barns, part of the original farm, had burned to the ground in the 1960's.
He may have acquired the original farm from the Helm's family.
The name of the original farm was therefore most likely changed to California at some point before 1839.
They sold all but this part of their original farm by the 1920s.
By mid-2006 only 500 of the original 5,000 white farms were still fully operational.
The original 1,000-acre farm had been in the same family for 276 years.
