Learning From the Past: Adventures in Farm History, Part 4

Reader Contribution by Joy Lominska
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This piece is the final installment of a four-part series on the author’s discovery of the history of her organic farm. Read the other pieces, on how she began tracing the history of her farm, the immigrant stories of the farm’s early owners and the historic farm sales of the Bruchmiller family. 

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After Otto Bruchmiller died in 1916, three of his children — Lizzie, Herb and Trudie — moved to southeast Colorado, where a new irrigation canal provided dependable water for farming. Anna and her husband worked in a restaurant in California, Carl and his family moved into Lawrence and ran a livestock hauling business. Emma and her husband continued to live in Lawrence. Dollie traveled the world, working as a nurse. In 1919, Bruchmiller Farm, rather worn out from years of row cropping and erosion, was sold.

  • Published on Jan 25, 2011
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