“The relative affordability of land was greatly aided, especially in the three decades after Appomattox, by a sustained agricultural depression...On the edges of large communities...farming could be economically justified only by ignoring the potential value of the property for building lots.” (129-30)

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)