Welcome to Mill Creek Farm, where residents are treated to rolling hills, sunny weather, and all the
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HUMANS AREN'T THE ONLY ONES WHO GET TO ENJOY THEIR GOLDEN YEARS.
WELCOME TO MILL CREEK FARM, A RETIREMENT HOME FOR HORSES.
SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Gregory, Mill Creek Farm Owner:
This is Gregory. Good horse here. You got more than one Gregory on the property, see.
PETER AND MARY GREGORY OPENED MILL CREEK FARM IN 1984, AND HAVE SPENT THE LAST 30 YEARS PROVIDING AN OASIS FOR A SELECT GROUP OF OLD HORSES WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR COUNTRY OR COMMUNITY.
SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Gregory, Mill Creek Farm Owner:
We don't take horses from private owners. They have to work for the government, US Army, we have two horses from the US Army, and we have horses that worked for various police departments across the state and even some outside the state. We even get horses seized by law enforcement in such bad shape nobody would accept them except for slaughter. So we take those and try to give them a new life.
UNFORTUNATELY, VERY FEW OPTIONS EXIST FOR HORSES AFTER THEY'VE PASSED THEIR PRIME.
SOUNDBIE (English) Peter Gregory, Mill Creek Farm Owner:
Most horses, when they get old, then nobody wants them anymore. And they're shipped off to slaughter, usually to Mexico or Canada because there's no official slaughterhouse in the USA now.
BUT THE GREGORYS, BOTH IN THEIR 80S NOW, WORK TIRELESSLY TO GIVE THESE HORSES A SECOND CHANCE AND SOME WELL DESERVED REST AND RELAXATION. MANY SUFFER FROM HEALTH PROBLEMS LIKE BLINDNESS.
SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Gregory, Mill Creek Farm Owner:
We thought these horses that worked hard all their lives, done everything that man required of them, should be given a few years of peace and quiet.
WHEN A HORSE DIES, THEY ARE BURIED IN WHAT THE COUPLE AFFECTIONATELY CALLS THE 'FIELD OF DREAMS'. THE GREGORYS EVENTUALLY HOPE TO SELL THE FARM TO SOMEONE WHO SHARES THEIR COMPASSION FOR THESE HORSES, CARRYING ON THEIR DREAM.
MATTHEW BURGOYNE, ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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Seminole Wars
The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole—the collective name given to the amalgamation of various groups of native Americans and African Americans who settled in Florida in the early 18th century—and the United States Army. The First Seminole War was from 1816 to 1819, the Second Seminole War from 1835 to 1842 and the Third Seminole War from 1855 to 1858. They were the largest conflicts in the United States between the War of 1812 and the American Civil War. Taken together, the Seminole Wars were the longest and most expensive Indian Wars in United States history and one of the most expensive of all wars ever fought by the U.S. as a percentage of gross national product.
The First Seminole War arose out of tensions relating to General Andrew Jackson's excursions into northern Spanish Florida against the Seminoles beginning in 1816. The governments of Britain and Spain both expressed outrage over the invasion but ultimately, the Spanish Crown agreed to cede Florida to the United States in the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819. According to the Treaty of Moultrie Creek of 1823, the Seminoles were required to leave northern Florida and were confined to a large reservation in the center of the Florida peninsula.
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