• CD Blubaugh was a prominent Danville farmer and associate of conservationist Louis Bromfield.

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield founded Malabar Farm, today preserved as a state park in Lucas. 

  • Conservationist and writer Louis Bromfield wrote about CD Blubaugh in his book Pleasant Valley.

  • CD Blubaugh stands in one of the fields on his farm for a feature news article about his farming practices.

  • Raspberry bushes being sprayed, around 1939, on CD Blubaugh’s farm near Danville.

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