[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 158 (Monday, September 14, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H4372]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HONORING COLEMAN CREST FARM

  (Mr. BARR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Coleman Crest Farm in 
Lexington, Kentucky. This farm is one of Lexington's oldest African-
American-owned family farms with a remarkable legacy.
  James Coleman, the farm's first owner, was born into slavery in 1845 
in Uttingertown, Kentucky. Incredibly, in March of 1888, James Coleman 
purchased the land he and his parents had worked on for years as 
slaves.
  The farm has passed through four generations of Colemans since that 
time, all while enduring and prevailing over racial discrimination, the 
Great Depression, and two world wars.
  In 2001, James Coleman's great-grandson, Jim, and his late wife, 
Cathy, purchased the farm. Tomorrow on September 15, Cathy Coleman's 
birthday, a groundbreaking of a new house at the farm will take place 
dedicated to Cathy's memory. The farm will be used to help shape the 
future for Black farmers as Lexington youth are exposed to the 
agricultural opportunity as a means to realize the American Dream.
  I am honored to pay tribute to the entire Coleman family today in the 
people's House.

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