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Pages in category "Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Since the land was no longer a working farm, the farmhouse was in a process of decay, and trees had begun to grow in the former pastureland. [4] In 1993, the Minnesota Historical Society noticed that the state was losing historic agricultural sites, and it identified the Grimm farm as a high priority for stabilization and preservation. [2]
The Oliver Kelley Farm is a farm museum in Elk River, Minnesota, United States. From 1850 to 1870 it was owned by Oliver Hudson Kelley, one of the founders of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, the country's first national agrarian advocacy group. The Oliver Kelley Farm is operated as a historic site by the Minnesota ...
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota (26 P) Pages in category "Farms in Minnesota" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The Swensson Farm Museum is a historic farmstead located in Chippewa County, Minnesota, six miles (10 km) east of Montevideo.Established by Norwegian immigrants Olof and Ingeborg Swensson in the 1880s, the farmstead today serves as open-air museum operated by the Chippewa County Historical Society showcasing pioneer life and Swedish-American heritage.
Unusually intact example of the diversified family farms that characterized Minnesota agriculture in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Established circa 1855, with 18 contributing properties mostly built in the 1890s. [89] 77: Hanover Bridge
Andrew Peterson on the farm in 1885. Andrew Peterson (Anders Pettersson) was born October 20, 1818, at Västra Ryd parish in Ydre härad, Östergötland, Sweden. He died March 31, 1898, in Waconia, Carver County, Minnesota. He emigrated from Rydsnäs, Sweden to American in 1850.
Jamestown and Lime Township Plat Maps from the Standard Atlas, Blue Earth County, Minnesota According to the United States Census Bureau , the township has an area of 16.9 square miles (43.7 km 2 ), of which 15.8 square miles (40.8 km 2 ) is land and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km 2 ), or 6.49%, is water.