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<blockquote data-quote="HerefordSire" data-source="post: 614528" data-attributes="member: 4437"><p><em>The following Adams ranch is in the same county at the same time as the Cook ranch:</em></p><p></p><p>Another notable ranch in Sac County was the Adams Ranch. It began as the Wheeler Ranch, owned by H.C. Wheeler, in 1871. The Wheeler Ranch was a great Ranch, but its notoriety came when the land was sold to W. P. Adams in 1896. Under the management of the Adams family who owned and operated the ranch for 67 years, it became one of the greatest ranches in Iowa and well-known throughout the United States. The farm averaged 60 bushels of corn each day and required 76 wagons of men 60 days to complete the harvest. The ranch was not only an agricultural marvel in a time when large farms were extremely rare, but it was also a beautiful sight for passersby and residents of nearby Odebolt. There were 12 sections of land fenced with cement posts, and elm trees lined each roadway around every section. There was a bunk house for the men who worked the land, a kitchen and dining hall, a commissary, a blacksmith shop, a mule barn, and several homes for married men and their families, as well as the stately Adams homes. It was a phenomenal sight to see. The demise of the Adams Ranch had similar causes as the Cook Ranch: family members moved away and gradually sold the property....</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.frontiernet.net/~shirleyp1/history.html" target="_blank">http://www.frontiernet.net/~shirleyp1/history.html</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here are some photos of the Adams ranch.</p><p><a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iaohms/picsfairview/fairviewpics.html" target="_blank">http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iaohm ... wpics.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HerefordSire, post: 614528, member: 4437"] [i]The following Adams ranch is in the same county at the same time as the Cook ranch:[/i] Another notable ranch in Sac County was the Adams Ranch. It began as the Wheeler Ranch, owned by H.C. Wheeler, in 1871. The Wheeler Ranch was a great Ranch, but its notoriety came when the land was sold to W. P. Adams in 1896. Under the management of the Adams family who owned and operated the ranch for 67 years, it became one of the greatest ranches in Iowa and well-known throughout the United States. The farm averaged 60 bushels of corn each day and required 76 wagons of men 60 days to complete the harvest. The ranch was not only an agricultural marvel in a time when large farms were extremely rare, but it was also a beautiful sight for passersby and residents of nearby Odebolt. There were 12 sections of land fenced with cement posts, and elm trees lined each roadway around every section. There was a bunk house for the men who worked the land, a kitchen and dining hall, a commissary, a blacksmith shop, a mule barn, and several homes for married men and their families, as well as the stately Adams homes. It was a phenomenal sight to see. The demise of the Adams Ranch had similar causes as the Cook Ranch: family members moved away and gradually sold the property.... [url=http://www.frontiernet.net/~shirleyp1/history.html]http://www.frontiernet.net/~shirleyp1/history.html[/url] Here are some photos of the Adams ranch. [url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iaohms/picsfairview/fairviewpics.html]http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iaohm ... wpics.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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