Only four years after Elias and Flora Disney moved to Marceline, when Walt was only 8 years old, they had to sell their farm. On this farm young Walt and his brother Roy were expected to help out with farm chores and it was here Walt began drawing. Elias and his older sons had struggled to make the farm work but they couldn't. After they sold the farm they moved to Kansas City where Elias bought a newspaper delivery business. Walt and Roy were given jobs to deliver the Kansas City Starand other papers. Walt's memories of the farm would later serve as inspiration for the reconstruction of the family barn, which he used to house his minature steam train hobby, in the back yard of his mansion at Carolwood Estates.
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