Thompson Farm

Farm house and buildings at the Thompson Farm

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David Stratton farmed this land during Herbert Hoover's boyhood, although the buildings date from the early to middle 1900s. The principal buildings, including the wood-framed farmhouse, timber-framed barn, and hog house-corn crib, were constructed during the 1910s and 1920s under the ownership of James Yetter, while the rest of the structures date from the Donald and Fern Thompson family's occupation between 1938 and 1960. In 1963 the Hoover Birthplace Foundation took steps to protect lands and views adjacent to the park from development. This farm was eventually part of that effort and is now part of Herbert Hoover National Historic Site.