Born and raised in a rural area also. My Grandparents lived a few miles away on a road to a 1 mile lake. When they built their house it was the first house on the road to and the lake. Now, there is not one open lot on that lake and the homes are all very high value.
Grandma was born in the late 1890's and she told me that when word got out that a someone had bought the first auto in the area....everyone stood out by the road and waved as it went past.
