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The Niels Nielsen Fourteen-Side Barn Farm near Noonan, North Dakota, United States, is a round barn that was built in 1914 by successful Danish immigrant Niels Nielsen. It was built from a kit purchased from the Chicago House Wrecking Company. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]
The Frederick A. and Sophia Bagg Bonanza Farm, also known as Bagg Bonanza Farm or F. A. Bagg Farm, is a former bonanza farm in Richland County, North Dakota, United States. Operated between about 1915 and 1935, the farm of the Baggs encompasses as many as 7,000 acres (2,800 ha), and was operated virtually like a factory according to modern ...
It is also known as the Lawrence Welk Birthplace, the Mike Welk Farm and ND SITS 32 EM 46. Here on March 11, 1903, noted American musician, accordionist , bandleader , and television impresario Lawrence Welk was born to Ludwig and Christina Welk, who were German-speaking Roman Catholics from Alsace-Lorraine by way of Odesa, Ukraine (then part ...
Marsh Self Binder, Red River Valley, D.T. 1877 [4]. Bonanza farmers pioneered the development of farm technology and economics. They used steam engines to power plowing as much as 4 decades before the modern farm tractor made its appearance - plows and combine harvesters drawn by steam tractors were used in the West in the 1880s and 1890s.
Fort Ransom State Park is a public recreation area located in the Sheyenne River Valley two miles north of the town of Fort Ransom in Ransom County, North Dakota. The state park preserves two homesteader farms: the Bjone House and the Andrew Sunne farm. [4] The park is a featured site on the Sheyenne River Valley National Scenic Byway. [5] [6]
The Adams–Fairview Bonanza Farm near Wahpeton, North Dakota, is a bonanza farm that was developed in 1905. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The Elkhorn Ranch was established by Theodore Roosevelt on the banks of the Little Missouri River 35 miles north of Medora, North Dakota in the summer of 1884. Roosevelt hired Bill Sewall [1] and Wilmot Dow, two Maine woodsmen, to run the ranch. Sewall and Dow built the ranch house, "a long, low house of logs," in the winter of 1884–1885.
North of Carrington on the western side of Burlington Northern railroad tracks 47°29′42″N 99°08′27″W / 47.495°N 99.140833°W / 47.495; -99.140833 ( Ralph Hall Farm Carrington