This photo of the farm looks just like it did when our family moved there in 1973. It was known as the Oltrogge Place, and I bought the acreage along highway 63, north of deadman's corner and south of Artesian. Notice the 2-lane highway... The first building you see in the southwest corner was a drive-through hog house corncrib combination with a platform scale in the drive-through area. That building, plus the next building (a clear span machine shed with a walk-up upper loft) were destroyed by fire about 1980. The L-shaped barn also lost the south expansion in the fire. The grainery (not visible) I tore down; and the windmill was torn down and reassembled by the Amish and stands today in the Hazleton area. Today, there are fewer trees, as highway 63 is now a 4-lane thruway. There was a chicken house near the windmill. The L has been taken off the barn; and the house has been remodeled a couple of times. It was a Sears & Roebuck house with a full basement, 6 bedrooms, an open stairway made of oak and a second stairway as well, leaded glass windows, pocket doors, and steam heat. The oak woodwork throughout the house is beautiful. Pressurized water for the house came from a concrete holding tank inside a shed at the side of the windmill; once it came into the house there was a pressure tank for water pressure. Our family moved about 1990, and several other families have lived there since.

I moved to this house in 1990 with my mom dad and brother. We added the attached garage. We moved in 2003.