Marker Inscription
Ethnic Heritage - European, Exploration/Settlement, Architecture
Historic Place
Reeder-Omenson Farm
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About this site
Reeder-Omenson 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 31.6920, -97.6584 near Clifton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Omenson House (Reeder-Omenson House) (historical marker), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Norway Mill, Norway Mills Cemetery, and Lahlum, A. H., House.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2083003120. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Reeder-Omenson Farm is one of the Norwegian-settlement farmsteads in the Norse district of Bosque County northwest of Clifton. Like its neighbors, it dates to the wave of Norwegian immigration that began in 1854 and that made the Clifton area the largest Norwegian colony in the American West, where families cleared land, farmed, and built with native stone and timber. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1983.
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Nearby in Bosque County
Historical Marker
Omenson House (Reeder-Omenson House)
Clifton · 1962
Historic Place
Norway Mill
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Cemetery
Norway Mills Cemetery
Bosque County
Historic Place
Lahlum, A. H., House
Clifton · 1983
Historic Place
Hoff-Ulland Farm
Clifton · 1983
Historical Marker
Colwick, John and Mary
Clifton · 1989
Historical Marker
Norwegian Settlements in Bosque County
Clifton · 1969
Historic Place
Ringness, Jens and Kari, Farm
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