Fermilab History and Archives Project  Mullins Farm: Site 29
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Mullins HomeVincent Mullins was born around 1903 and his wife
Hertha was born in 1917. They were married in 1940, but had no
children. Prior to living on the farm at site 29 off Wilson
Street, Vincent went to the University of Wisconsin and became a
pharmacist while Hertha was a camera girl for a photo
concessions business at the Black Hawk Restaurant in Chicago.
They bought the property off Wilson Road from Mr. Bergle, a
Chevrolet dealer in Berwyn at the time. The house rested on 80
acres of land called “Meywell Acres,” named after the Meyers and
Wellmans who had originally built the house. Besides about 40
acres of woods and a big lake on the property, there was another
40 acres of land where the houses, stables, and barns stood and
the rest was planted with various crops such as soy beans and
corn, which were tended to by their neighbor, Jim Theis, from
site 32.  The Mullins farm had