Centennial Farms & Ranches

E.R. Gustafson Farm

Weld County

The other Gustafson farm we are honoring today belongs to Barbara's husband, E. R. Gustafson. This farm could be called the Wilson/Gustafson Farm, because it got its start when T.H. Wilson and his wife Mary built a sod home and began to homestead the area in 1884. They received the patent on the land in 1892 and in the same year moved to a more permanent house. The farm was passed on to their son, A.J. Wilson, who married Nellie Brown, the daughter of W.W. Brown. Brown, if you will remember, was the man who started the last farm we were talking about. Their daughter was, of course, Barbara Wilson Gustafson. Today, com, sugar beets and pinto beans are raised on the 160 acres originally homesteaded by T.H. Wilson.