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JAN.29.1999 3:31PN MN HISTORICAL SOC NO.092 P.3i7 <br /> ADDRESS: 3020 Watertown Road <br /> HISTORIC NAME: Gable Barn <br /> FIELD NUMBER: 2713B-314/T-21- <br /> INVENTORY NUMBER: HE-OFLG-049 <br /> �] TION D AN SIS <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 18509 and 1860x.. The <br /> t for urban markets dominated agriculture through the 1870s, <br /> production of Whea <br /> ral farming and dairying gradually coming to <br /> with a mi:ced pattern of gene <br /> prominence around the tura 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 REGISSTER�ict• Contributing' <br /> Yes: <br /> No: Individual: Non-Contributing: <br /> Need Info. : X <br /> On Register: <br /> LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: National: <br /> Local: State: <br /> DQC TATIO /NOTES <br /> 1995 Mather, D. and F. 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 /> MAP 3 <br /> -ORC-049 p <br /> . �` s ..A t� `: - •�. USGS QUAD: Excelsior 1958 <br /> y--r•--a�i1 �✓.- 1\,`• -♦�. �r �, _ .".U' 1 .•� (Revised 1993) <br /> 118 N. lea <br /> 117 N. <br /> i:.r.s�i..±-��►) ��:�,,.-�Y.-X1••:1� ��g, ��� 'y .:'�c. i <br /> Form Prepared By: Shawna K. Gibson <br /> Date: October 1994 <br />