His family has lived and farmed in the region since the 1920s, and are collectively considered one of the area’s largest landowners.
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Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
Generations of sharecroppers farmed the land, called the Franklin Farms megasite, until 2006, when the Franklin family sold it to the state of Louisiana, which then hoped to attract an auto plant.
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