Essay Archive - The Grange
The Grange
The Grange was the first major farm organization and began in the 1860's.
This organization was created mostly as a social and self-help association not
originally an organization of protest. During the depression of 1873, this
group of bonded friends, became an "agency for political change." They knew in
ordered to help themselves they must become a voice in this new government in
order to survive.
With the depression farm product prices began to decrease. More farms
joined the Grange to band together to resolve the issues before them. Beginning
as a small group of friends learning from each other what worked and what didn't,
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