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Anonymous-0 · Sep 3, 2012

My place is an old farm house and barn with a few acres. An old guy stopped by today and told us his uncle owned the farm and he used to spend summers there in the 1930s working for his uncle. The guy said he was 88 years old and lived in Florida but was back visiting family. I guess the farm used to be over 500 acres. Pretty large for a dairy farm in the 1930s. He showed me where the buildings used to be. There where 4 large barns. Only one barn remains. We talked for an hour and he left. 20 minutes latter I thought awe heck I should have asked if he had any pictures of the place from the 1930s. Kind of fun learning the history of the place.

mark us · Sep 3, 2012

there is a company that sells old pictures like what you're talking about but can't remember the name. they use to bug us about them for quite a while but they were pretty pricey

Tom in TN · Sep 3, 2012

Duane,

This isn't as dramatic as a 1930s incident, but I recently had a guy (and his wife) stop by who told me that he used to stay with his uncles in two little old houses on my farm. One of the houses is still standing. It's a little three room house with a porch across the front. I use it to store hay. The other house is gone, but part of the foundation is still visible.

Really nice guy. Told me some stories about him and his cousins and the woods.

Fun to hear about the old times.

Tom in TN

Greg1959 · Sep 3, 2012

Sounds like you might want to invest in a metal detector and have a little fun searching around the "old" places.

Probably won't make a fortune but I think it would be kinda fun.

GeneMO · Sep 3, 2012

My ancestors bought the one farm in 1904 and the other one in 1937. Not anyone left alive that can remember back that long except my 95 year old aunt. And she has told me lots of the stories.

Gene

JMS/.MN · Sep 3, 2012

In SD there is a company at 712-229-7933 (Tracey) that does that.

notjustair · Sep 3, 2012

I bought one of those pictures from Vintage Aerial. If I remember right it was about $275. I hated to spend that much cash but figured I would enjoy it. Every person that comes to the house stares at it. The amount of time I have spent looking at it paid for it pretty quick. I have it hanging right beside the aerial I had from 1999 and the two are so different (my "vintage" one is from 1978). I am so glad I did it. I wish they would have had something from much earlier but those were rare around here from what I have been told.

The company is a classy deal. I gave him my info and he emailed me about a week later having found pictures. I got on the computer and logged into their side and he flipped through the pictures that were nearby until we found it. They sure are proud of them, but if you are interested in the history of your place it is well worth it.

I sure learned I keep a tidier barnyard than other folks on this farm have!

mb58 · Sep 3, 2012

Wife and I bought this place in 1986. An old guy whose dad once owned this place and who grew up here in the 20's & 30's met me in town one day and began to tell me stories about the place. I have three huge pecan trees in the backyard. He said he originally planted 12 of them in 1927. The three remaining still make lots of pecans every year. He said when they were clearing the last wooded area on the place that he and his brother would get up at daylight every morning, go cut and pile brush, run back home and eat breakfast, then run a mile and a half to the school house. Don't know of any kid that would do that now. He told lots more. All very interesting.

Tim in New York · Sep 3, 2012

Our place was built around 1898. About the only story we got was from the granddaughter of the guy who built the house. She told us he shot himself in the outhouse in 1932 - during the depression. Her father had to move back to the farm to run it, which he did until selling the cows in 1941. Rented the land that year and some guy put up wet hay and the barn burned.

Tim

fixerupper · Sep 3, 2012

712-229 is a Cherokee, Iowa verizon cell area code and prefix. Jim

fixerupper · Sep 3, 2012

From what I understand, years ago there was a murder where I live. The story I got from an old neighbor who was born in this neighborhood in 1895, a guy shot his brother do death right outside of where my front door is. The other brother, who lived across the road, thought this brother was messing with his wife so he came over to his house, which is the house I live in now, and plugged him. I found the grave of the brother who was shot and the stone had 1896 as the year he died. We've never told my daughter-in-law about this because she would think this place is haunted and would be spooked out about it. Jim

showcrop · Sep 3, 2012

Last night I stayed at a very old (I would put it at around 1850) very big, house in northern VT that is owned by my cousin, and was all renovated around thirty years ago. My uncle had bought the place with river bottom acreage around 1955 when the house was in serious disrepair. I had helped stack hay in the barn there once as a kid around 1965. I walked around the place this AM and I saw that part of the very old barn had first been a house. I could see that the older house would have been from around 1750-75. I can only speculate that an early settler who had some very good acreage built one house then some years later after prospering built the much larger more opulent house.

paul · Sep 3, 2012

Family bought the farm a couple years after the state (Minnesota) became a state.

Couple of great uncles were playing with a cannon round, they thought it was empty or solid or something, were doing something in the shop with it & it went off. Blew a hand and few fingers of the other hand off of one great uncle, they fussed with him to get him hel; the other great uncle was a little woosy buut seemed ok, he layed down on the couch and ended up dying.

I remember the one great uncle as a little kid, he liked to play card but needed a box to hold the cards. Never heard the story until many years later.

--->Paul

Walt Davies · Sep 3, 2012

Not long after we bought this farm and house built in 1871 an old fellow stopped by and taked about the early days on the farm, after a while he pointed at spot in the living room and said that used to be the bedroom I was born right there.
Kool huh.
Walt

Anonymous-0 · Sep 4, 2012

Nope...Mum would take them in the 4x4 Taxi.

bison · Sep 4, 2012

I had an old guy with his daughter dropping by a few years back. He wanted to show his daughter where he grew up.My place used to be 8 or so homesteads in the thirties to sixties.
Well i got talking with him about the 1/4 section he used to live on,there used to be an hudson bay trading post there,We found there's still a couple bits of it laying around all grown in with bush.
Anyway ,i told him i have not been able to harvest a grain crop from this 100 acre field yet cause it always seems to freeze before it is ready,so i just keep it in hay.
He said,..as far as i know back then my dad could not grow grain here either,he tried it lots,..it always froze too.
Yet land surrounding it can and does grow good crops.
You go figger

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