Marker Inscription
Ethnic Heritage - European, Exploration/Settlement, Architecture
Historic Place
Pederson, John, Farm
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About this site
Pederson, John, 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 31.7280, -97.7188 near Clifton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Finstad, Ole and Elizabeth, Homesite (historic place), about 0.3 miles away. Others within a short drive include Grimland, Gunsten and Lofise, House, Grimland, Keddel and Liv, Farm, and Ringness, Jens and Kari, Farm.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2083003117. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The John Pederson Farm is one of the pioneer Norwegian homesteads in the Norse settlement of Bosque County, an area that became known as the Norwegian capital of Texas. Immigrants who arrived after 1854 farmed the land and quarried local limestone for houses, barns, and dry-stacked stone fences, several of which survive on farms like this one. The Pederson farm was entered in the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1983.
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