Unless your ancestors were wealthy, it’s unlikely they had a lawn until the 1870s or even later. The word “laune” first appeared in 1540, though the aristocracy in northern Europe were surrounding their castles with grassy swards in the Middle Ages. Upwardly mobile landowners in America adopted the...
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