Ramsey County History – Spring 2000: “The Gibbs Farm, Its Neighbor, The University Farm, and How Both of Them Influenced Minnesota’s Agricultural History”

The Gibbs Farm, Its Neighbor, The University Farm, and How Both of Them Influenced Minnesota’s Agricultural History
Author: William F. Hueg Jr.

The 160 acres of farmland acquired by Herman and Jane Gibbs in 1849 in Falcon Heights proved to be some of the most valuable acreage in the history of agriculture in Minnesota. Most of the Gibbs property was later acquired by the University of Minnesota for an experimental farm near the campus of the School of Agriculture. In 1949, the Ramsey County Historical Society acquired the Gibbs farmhouse and some of the remaining Gibbs land (today about nine acres) and turned the Gibbs home and land into a museum about the pioneer and Dakota ways of life in this area.

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