Kathryn Grahn, who is 87 years old, says her grandmother survived tuberculosis, drove a mule team on a frontier mail route and staked out her claim to land in Prowers County that is now the 5,000 acre Rocking 7K Ranch, in the southeast corner of the state. The ranch and others will receive a Centennial Farm designation from History Colorado at the State Fair on Friday.
2017 Centennial Farm inductees:
- Bailey Ranch, 1916, Karval, Lincoln
- Bar 7T Ranch, 1915, Mancos, Montezuma
- Blackmore Farms, 1917, Otis, Washington
- Carlson Farm, 1915, Snyder, Morgan
- Carpenter-Newbanks Farms, 1917, Yuma, Washington
- Charles T. Neally Homestead, 1888, Burlington, Kit Carson
- CTL Farm and Ranch. 1902, Yuma, Yuma
- Darnell Ranch, 1916, Las Animas, Bent
- Fairview Farms, 1917, Fleming, Logan
- Fiscus Farm and Ranch, 1917, New Raymer, Weld
- Floyd Schinkel Trust B, 1913, Akron, Washington
- Fulbright Family Farm, 1917, Kim, Las Animas
- Garvey Brothers Land and Cattle LLC, 1912, Nucla, Montrose
- Glen Doddridge Farm & Ranch, 1917, Kirk, Yuma
- Hasart Farms, 1915, Stratton, Kit Carson
- Hogue Ranch, 1917, Steamboat Springs, Routt
- Hohnholz Ranch Inc., 1917, Glendevey, Larimer
- Kanode Ranch, 1917, Ault, Weld
- KOK Ranch, 1917, Salida, Chaffee
- Long’s Gardens, 1916, Boulder, Boulder
- M&L Oltjenbruns Farms, Inc., 1917, Amherst, Phillips
- McCaw Cattle, LLC, 1913, Ignacio, La Plata
- McCracken Farms, 1917, Anton, Washington
- Mill Iron D Ranch, 1917, Stoneham, Weld
- Muhme Farm, 1917, Longmont, Weld
- Murray Farms, 1917, Brighton, Adams
- Olsen Farm, 1917, Yuma, Yuma
- Pearl Farms, 1917, Rocky Ford, Otero
- Redmond Ranch, 1917, Yampa, Routt
- Rocking 7K Ranch, 1886, Granada, Prowers
- Samual C. and Dola B. Coe Homestead, 1915, Cheyenne Wells. Cheyenne
- Seger Farms, 1915, Haxton, Phillips
- Sunnyside Farms, 1900, Durango, La Plata
- Tice Family Farm, 1912, Longmont, Boulder
- Trautman-Glenn Farm, 1917, Otis, Washington
- Ugolini Farm Dairy, 1917, Walsenburg, Huerfano
- Waterfall Ranch, 1917, Durango, La Plata
- Wernsman Family Farm, 1916, Fleming, Logan