A strange crop used to grow on the grounds of a mansion on Cemetery Street in Frankfort.
JoAnn Maneen, the current owner of the sprawling Victorian residence turned bed-and-breakfast, is quick to tell the story of how a passerby in the late 1800s believed the brown, mushroom-like structures sprouting from the yard to be an unusual agricultural experiment. A Frankfort resident corrected the man: “No, he’s growing balloons; it’s a balloon farm.”
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