A Farmer's Town Lot, 1895

From the steamer trunk.


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Image courtesy of E.H.

While Henry and Anna Harms had been farming east of Ainsworth since 1880 at least, they already owned a town lot by 1895, as this survey shows. This is probably where they took up permanent residence in 1915, when Herman Harms married Minnie Rossow and took over the Ainsworth farm. If it was the same lot they owned in the 1930s, it was on the west side of Lincoln Street, across from where the Burns Funeral Home sits now.