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J1lP1.39.1999 3:31PM MPI HISTORICAL SOC [40.09'2 P.3i7 <br /> ADDRESS: 3020 Watertown Road <br /> HISTORIC NAME: Gable Barn <br /> FIELD NUMBER: 2713B-314/T-21 <br /> INVENTORY NUMBER: HE-0RC-049 <br /> EVA DATION AND ANALYSIS <br /> HISTORIC CONTEXT: Railroads and Agricultural Development, 1870-1940. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: Farming has been the basis of the region's economy <br /> since the arrival of Euroamerican settlers in the 1850s and 1860s. . The <br /> production of wheat for urban markets dominated agriculture through the 1870c,.. <br /> With a mixed pattern of general farming and dairying gradually coming to <br /> prominence around the turn of the century. <br /> SIGNIFICANCE: This property may be significant for its association with <br /> early, developmental patterns of farming in the region. Although the broad <br /> outlines of this history have been sketched, its specific development is <br /> poorly known. Nor is there substantiated information about the relation Of <br /> particular farming patterns and property type development, It may also be <br /> significant as a now rare example of a once-common important architectural <br /> type. <br /> ELIGIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL REGISTER; <br /> Yes•. District: Contributing: <br /> No: Individual: Non-Contributing: <br /> Need Info. : X <br /> On Register: <br /> LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> Local: State: National; <br /> DO TATIO OTES <br /> 1995 Mather, D. and P. Nunnally <br /> Draft Final Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey Report: Mn/DOT <br /> S.P. 2713/8602, Hennepin and Wright Counties. Submitted to the <br /> Minnesota Department of Transportation. Copy on file, State Historic <br /> Preservation Office, Minnesota Historical Society. <br /> MAPS S <br /> �0 <br /> • .. �A ;�°sem -y-- -+- USGS QUAD: Excelsior 1958 <br /> (Revised 1993) <br /> C . <br /> pion . ���.,�; ��•`. .� �rte_ ._ <br /> 118 N. <br /> 117 N. <br /> -�-..ter..+_,l '.w+ ::Mr•.•tTr'��•1! �� � �I�� ' •+X C• <br /> Form Prepared By: Shawna K, Gibson Date: October 1994 <br />