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After the original 154-year-old farmhouse burnt down, Ben
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In 1789, Joseph Kinney and Basil
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veteran and local real estate investor, owned the property from 1885 to 1894 and renamed it
Castleford. Ben Collings, a construction materials supplier specializing in concrete, purchased the property in 1937 and renamed it
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purchased the remainder of the estate. In 1966, the city of
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