LU69

Print, Photographic

1924

Haug Family Homestead, Otisco Township. 17" x 13 1/2" hand-tinted black and white oval photograph of the Ralph and Helen Haug farm, located in Section 36 of Otisco township, Waseca County; shows farm house, granary, windmill, livestock barn (lower left), before the main barn, a gambrel roof style building was built in 1924.

Farmstead, Section 36, southeast Otisco township, farmyard, farmhouse. 160 acre farm is identified in the Waseca County 1879 Landowners of Record in the name of Andrew Stenson; it was purchased from Anna Kinder in the early 1900s by Norwegian (Hurdal) immigrants Lauritz (L.G.) Haug and his wife, Pauline Pedersdatter Garsjoen; their son Ralph Haug [b.1899, d. 1987] and his wife Helen Johnson [b. 1900, d. 1985] (daughter of A.D. & Inger Hartz Johnson) farmed from the 1920s to the 1960s; third generation Robert "Bob" Haug [b. 1925] and his wife Lorraine Hagen Haug [b. 1927] were the last Haugs to own the farmstead. In 2003, the land is still farmed by a great-grandson of the original Haug owner.