Photo 38-WSA-13

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Pretty sure this is just north of Plain, WI on County N 0.3 miles form Highway 23.

There's now a shop next to the garage, a machine shed to the north west of the house and round corn cribs behind that. The octagon barn has a new green steel roof. I grew up on this farm. The barn was still used for milking up until November 2014. My grandpa passed when my dad was 17. Dad quit school and had been running the farm for two years during this photo with help from his mom and a couple brothers. We always had cars stopping on the road to take pictures of the octagon barn. Once in a while people would stop and ask to see the inside. The address used to be E5360 county rd. N but is now S9692. The fields are still worked by my dad, but he had enough with milking after 40 years. It was a hard 40 years.

Octagon barn was built by George Trumpf in 1900. He was born in Württemberg, Germany and married to Ernestina Homuth. The farm was sold to John Weiss in 1907. Sold to Ferdinand Hemberger in 1909 (wife Anna Hutter). Sold to John B. Alt and Katherine "Kate" Ringelstetter in 1919. From 1919 to 1952, their son Herman Alt ran the farm. Sold to Clement Thering and LaVerne Butler in December 1952. By 2014, it was owned by Clem's son Timothy Thering and Cyndi Lipke. Former address: E5360 County Road N. Current address: S9692 County Road N.

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