The Grady Babb family lived here after Grady and his wife Ellen bought acreage with a house, a few outbuildings, and a neglected citrus grove. Beginning during the Depression, they improved the grove and gradually made it productive. The Babbs raised much of their own food with a horse-drawn plow and added to the property over the years as they raised their family. The barn and three sheds were part of their daily life and remain a distinctive group of historic agricultural buildings in their original location. Shingle Creek and nearby cypress swamps supplied water for cattle, lumber, fence posts, and, in extremely dry times, water for the citrus trees on the Babb property, though getting it to the trees meant dipping it into buckets and transferring it into barrels on the family’s Model T truck for transport. Working side by side with the help of their children, the Babbs harvested citrus, grew a variety of vegetables, and raised cattle. In the early years, their citrus went to a packing house for rail shipment, while later roads, trucks, and new processes created other options. It is unknown when citrus was first planted on the Babb property. Citrus growing was and is difficult because of severe weather and disease, and the family took pride in the grove they tended until it was lost early in this century to citrus greening, a disease that kills the trees.