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The Wickfield Round Barn is a historic sale barn building located near Cantril in rural Van Buren County, Iowa, United States. Originally called Silvers Sale Pavilion, it was built in 1919 by Alva Hunt for $20,000. The true round barn measures 50 feet (15 m) in diameter.
The Carstens Farmstead is a collection of historic buildings located south of Shelby, Iowa, United States.Johan Carstens was a German immigrant who spent eight years living and working in Milwaukee, Chicago, and Davenport, Iowa before settling in Pottawattamie County in 1871, where he established this farm.
The historic district is 1.2 acres (0.49 ha). The Feller family farm was once 350 acres (140 ha) but most of it has been sold to other farmers and the current farm is 40 acres (16 ha). [3] Feller sold the farmstead in 1955 and it is currently owned by Dr. Jose Angel since about 1994. [4] [5]
A hobby farm (also called a lifestyle block, acreage living, or rural residential) is a smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are held simply to bring homeowners closer to nature, to provide recreational land for horses, or as working farms for secondary income.
The Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District is a nationally recognized historic district located near Fort Madison, Iowa, United States.At the time of its nomination it contained 27 resources, which included 15 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, three contributing structures, and six non-contributing buildings. [2]
Iowa Select Farms is a pork production operation headquartered in Iowa Falls, the largest in Iowa, and the fourth largest in the United States. [1] It grew in the 1970s, was officially founded in 1992 and as of 2023 produced more than 5 million pigs on 800 CAFOs in 50 Iowa counties.
The farm is also famous as site of a visit on September 23, 1959, by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. [3] The visit was not their first meeting, and it was by Khrushchev's request. Garst's farm had been visited by Soviet officials first in 1955, as an unofficial extra when they were on an organized tour of smaller farms.
Pages in category "Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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