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THE MEIER FARM

The Meier Farm of Holdingford was established by Frank and Katherine Meier in September 15th,1913. The Meier Family purchased the property from the Batz family.

In 1914, Frank and Katherine Meier sold their 320 acre potato farm in Deer Creek, Minnesota, loaded their seven kids, cattle, implements, and belongings onto a couple of Soo Line railroad boxcars, and brought them all to the new farm they had bought in Holdingford.

They moved into the existing house across the street, and in September of 1914, construction began on what the Holdingford newspaper called "the big white house across the river", and also on a new barn and other outbuildings. Frank's main cash crop was potatoes, and he also kept dairy cows, chickens, and pigs, and also grew the crops to feed those animals.

Frank sold the farm to his youngest son, Cyril Meier, in 1946. Cyril transitioned to milk production as the main focus of income, and with his wife Dorothy, raised their three children there.

Now widowed, Dorothy Meier still lives in the house that Frank Meier built in 1914, and along with her children (3) and grandchildren (10), they raise beef cattle and rent out much of the tillable acreage for corn production.

Original buildings from the initial homestead:

•	Haus

•	Ice Haus

•	Garage

•	Calf Shed

•	Granary

•	Milk Haus