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Creation Date
Spring 2025
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View of the farmhouse surrounded by cedar and water oak trees.
In 1938 MGM Studios bought the rights to William Faulkner’s The Unvanquished for $25,000. He soon purchased 362.5 acres of farmland east of Oxford and named it Greenfield Farm.
The previous owner, Joe Parks, had taken over the First National Bank in 1920 and supposedly forced William’s grandfather, J.W.T. Falkner, out as President. Parks would later buy Faulkner’s parent’s home on North Street and his father-in-law’s hotel on the Square. Faulkner wrote about these events in The Town. According to historian Jim Gulley, taking what would become Greenfield Farm was “not an investment. It was a trophy”.
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