Ribbon farm

Ribbon farms (also known as strip farms, river lots, long-lot farms, or just long lots)[1][2] are long, narrow land divisions for farming, usually lined up along a waterway. In some instances, they line a road.

Ribbon farms along the Detroit River in 1796, where modern Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, now stand. Fort Detroit is on the north side of the river at center left, and Belle Isle is to the right.
Ribbon grants along the Swan River of Western Australia between Perth and Guildford
  1. ^ James Edward Davis (2000), Frontier Illinois: History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Indiana University Press, pp. 43–44, ISBN 0-253-21406-8
  2. ^ Terry G. Jordan (March 1974). "Antecedents of the Long-Lot in Texas". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 64: 70–86. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1974.tb00955.x.