Iowa ad led Caswell to rich Ceres farmland
When traveling through the subdivisions with streets that bear names of Thomas Street, Caswell Avenue or Mary Avenue, it's hard to picture the Cere...
When traveling through the subdivisions with streets that bear names of Thomas Street, Caswell Avenue or Mary Avenue, it's hard to picture the Ceres of a century ago as a farming berg on land stretching wide open. Yet this part of Ceres was the former land on which the Caswells lived and farmed.Yes, the same Caswells for whom Caswell State Park near Ripon is named. These are the Caswells of whom Thomas Caswell was a second-generation Irish immigrant and who worked hard, prospered and owned land in the area west of Smyrna Park with his wife, Mary Dixon Caswell, the namesake for Mary Avenue in Ceres.