The Henderson Gleaner reported that American Electric Power's Franklin Real Estate Co. is selling the property in 44 tracts at an auction set for Oct. 6 in Evansville, Ind.

“It's a big deal,” Henderson County Agricultural Extension Agent Mike Smith said. “It's one of the largest selloffs of farmland we've seen. It has the ability to change the lives of people out that way.”

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