Robert Parks came west from the eastern British colonies in the mid-eighteenth century. He left behind him a good few Parkses, some of whom reside to this day on the isolated Tangier Island and speak a language similar to Middle English. With a fiat in the form of a land grant from King George II via William Pitt the Elder, Parks wrested a ten square-mile section of what is now Armstrong County, Pennsylvania from the Delaware Indians and called it Parks Township. There, along the banks of the Kiskiminetas River, he founded his dairy, Farmers Delight. Boasting the first iron smelt west of the Alleghenys, Farmers Delight produced not only fine dairy products, but also its own nails, horseshoes, and other metal fittings. They made their own gilded china at Farmers Delight, and the draft horses were Percherons (a breed larger even than the much-ballyhooed Clydesdale). Farmers Delight Dairy operated for a century or two, finally shutting down in the late 1960s. Six hundred and fifty acres of Parks Township remain in the family, but most of the land and the original dairy buildings are now used as a cultural center for the arts for Armstrong County.
The "Farmers Delight" graphic is six inches in width and appears centered on the chest.
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