See User:Martha Forsyth/Madison Meadow/longversion for something that could be worked into an independent article. The page as it stands here will be incorporated into Eugene Oregon#Community (oops...not including the "Further Reading".
In the fall of 2003, neighbors noticed that "an unassuming two-acre remnant orchard tucked into the Friendly Area Neighborhood"[1] had been put up for sale by its owner, a resident of New York City.[2] Learning that a prospective buyer had plans to build several houses on the property, they formed a non-profit organization called Madison Meadow[3][4] in June of 2004 in order to buy the property and "preserve it as undeveloped space in perpetuity."[3] In 2007 their effort was named Third Best Community Effort,[5], and by the end of 2008 they had raised enough money to purchase the property.[1]
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