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The story of C&T Murphy farms
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Tom and Chester Murphy grew up in a red brick house along Highway 4, which today is a paved gateway to the Sierra Nevadas with a steady stream of traffic, particularly on summer weekends. As kids, the two brothers remember their father describing the slower pace of life on the ranch east of Farmington in the late 1930s.
“My grandfather built this house, and we have pictures of Model T’s out here,” said Chester, the older of the two brothers.
“I’m thinking it was 1938 that the house was built,” Tom said. “The old wooden-spoked wheels on the cars. There was a picture we had when the roof wasn’t on the house. My dad used to talk about when Highway 4 was just a dirt road. When you saw somebody once or twice in a day, that was high traffic.”