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The Rankin Ranch is a historic ranch off Montana Highway 284, north of Townsend in rural Broadwater County, Montana. A National Historic Landmark , it was a longtime summer residence of Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), whose 1916 election to the United States House of Representatives made her the first woman elected to the House.
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
In 1982, about 92% of the land in Upton County was in farms and ranches, but less than 1% of the county was considered prime farmland, and only 2% of the county was cultivated. [4] In the fall of 1911, the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway reached the townsite of Rankin, and by January 1912, most of the people living in Upland had moved to ...
The History of Ranch-Style Houses. After World War II, a series of events laid the foundation for more than a million ranch houses. According to the National Park Service, nine out of 10 new ...
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The Schilling Ranch Historic District is a tiny portion of a historic ranch in Cochise County, Arizona which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It consists of several structures built in the early to mid-1900s.
Henry Miller, c. 1887 Correspondence between Henry Miller and his superintendent, P.H. Turner. Henry Miller (July 21, 1827 – October 14, 1916) was a German-American rancher known as the "Cattle King of California" [1] who at one point in the late 19th century was one of the largest land-owners in the United States.
McKinley sold Rancho San Lucas in 1862 to Alberto Trescony (1814-1892), during a drought that devastated California cattle ranches. Trescony, born in Italy, arrived in Monterey in 1842. A tinsmith, he became wealthy enough manufacturing pans for California Gold Rush miners to begin investing in real estate. [9]