Marker Inscription
Ethnic Heritage - European, Exploration/Settlement, Architecture
Historic Place
Olson-Nelson Farm
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About this site
Olson-Nelson 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 31.7902, -97.6625 near Clifton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Seventh Day Adventist (cemetery), about 0.5 miles away. Others within a short drive include Linberg, Eric and Martha, Farm, Questad, Carl and Sedsel, Farm, and Brandhagen Houses.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2083003116. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Olson-Nelson Farm sits within the historic Norse community north of Clifton, settled from 1854 onward by Norwegian immigrants led into Bosque County by figures such as Cleng Peerson and Ole Canuteson. The Olson and Nelson families were among the many who took up 320-acre grants and built enduring stone-and-log farmsteads on the prairie and creek bottoms. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1983 as part of the county's Norwegian settlement.
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