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The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 2009 and the listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of August 21, 2009. [5] Currently the main house of the Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District is the office for the Whiterock Conservancy.
Since Garst's death, his farmstead has been preserved; in 2009, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places under the title of "Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District." The farm was seen as historically significant because of its importance in general American history and because of its place as Garst's home. [3] [4]
The main office of Whiterock Conservancy is the historic Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead, which is also an active bed and breakfast and part of the Whiterock Resort. In 1997, the farm house and surrounding lands became an agritourism destination [4] which later became the Whiterock Resort in 2007. [5]
In 1931, Garst and Thomas Hi-Bred Corn Company was founded by Roswell Garst and Charley Thomas in Coon Rapids, Iowa, and was "instrumental in promoting the use of hybrid corn." [ 1 ] During the Cold War , Garst formed a relationship with Nikita Khrushchev and assisted the USSR in modernizing its corn production.
As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th year, today's historic front page is from Sept. 22, 1959: Soviet premier lands in Des Moines for farm visit
Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District; Farm No. 1, Iowa Men's Reformatory; Robert William Andrew Feller Farmstead; Flynn Farm, Mansion, and Barn; Four Mounds Estate Historic District; Mathias C. and Eva B. Crowell Fuhrman Farm
Opinion: Our state has a history of lending skills to help others around the world, and we should ramp up our current efforts, writes Jerry Perkins.
An off-duty police officer raped a woman at his home after meeting her through a dating website, a court has heard. Exeter Crown Court heard Stuart Mines, 49, had non-consensual intercourse with a ...