Marker Inscription
Ethnic Heritage - European, Exploration/Settlement, Architecture
Historic Place
Olson-Hanson Farm
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About this site
Olson-Hanson Farm is a historic place in Clifton, Bosque County, dedicated in 1983. It is one of 35 historic places documented in Bosque County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 131 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.7466, -97.6540 near Clifton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Olson, Joseph and Anna, Farm (historic place), about 0.6 miles away. Others within a short drive include Norwegian Settlements in Bosque County, Knudson, Christen and Johanne, Farm, and Bronstad House.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2083003115. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Olson-Hanson Farm is one of the Norwegian immigrant farmsteads scattered across the Norse district of Bosque County, where settlers from Norway put down roots beginning in 1854. Families such as the Olsons and Hansons claimed state land grants and built self-sufficient farms of native limestone and hewn log, helping make the Clifton area the largest Norwegian settlement in the American West. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1983.
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