The Lost Renner Farm - A Once Beautiful Minnesota Family Farm that is Vanishing with Time

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @gregburris4947
    @gregburris4947 3 місяці тому +2

    So sad. It brings tears to my eyes. I spent two summers in the mid-50s when I was 10 and 11 with a great uncle and Aunt on their Guernsey dairy farm near Grand Meadow, Minnesota. The house and all buildings are gone now. Only the windbreak remains. Those tall pine trees.They were the best summers of my life as a young boy. What a beautiful thing to have experienced in my life.

  • @kevinj2412
    @kevinj2412 11 місяців тому +15

    It's unbelievable how fast places fall apart when they are no longer occupied. Very sad to see, what a nice place in it's day.

  • @curthenry9398
    @curthenry9398 Рік тому +19

    With the value of land for crops it is amazing the owner of the property has not removed the structures and trees.

    • @chrishayden7016
      @chrishayden7016 7 місяців тому +2

      In Iowa, such buildings, even though uninhabitable, are still seen as 'improvements' to the property and taxed accordingly. That's why there aren't many old, unoccupied farmsteads as there once were. Only windbreak trees to show there was once human activity there.

  • @dankingjr.2088
    @dankingjr.2088 Рік тому +17

    These old places break my heart. New Mexico is full of them, and you wonder how somebodies hopes and dreams went so wrong.

  • @sammuelmeger7996
    @sammuelmeger7996 11 місяців тому +8

    I love how You explain the history of the area and then walk around the area to show us what You were explaining.

  • @lorenstribling6096
    @lorenstribling6096 7 місяців тому +12

    The brick seems to have held up well. Just the wooden parts of the structures that have deteriorated. Such a sad and lonely place now.

    • @JayYoung-ro3vu
      @JayYoung-ro3vu 7 місяців тому +2

      I was thinking the same on the bricks and tile.

  • @rodneyferris4089
    @rodneyferris4089 Рік тому +11

    So much great handiwork goes into those beautiful homes and they are just abandoned

  • @mikewarren9850
    @mikewarren9850 7 місяців тому +4

    It can be very sad for so many family's, to see how the grand parents or the parents worked hard, built a family home and farm , made a fairly prosperous living, just to have the children grow up and slowly leave, leaving everything to rot. As this story was told, this was only a 2 generation farm. It is very common and normal in many European countries where a family has lived and worked the same land and lived in the same home for many generations, 4,5,6 and many more generations. As the parents grow older, the children take over and run the farm and take care of the parents.

    • @RolfeK
      @RolfeK 7 місяців тому +1

      Both sons seemed inclined to leave the farm, although one continued farming. Hopefully the surviving family members received a nice payday when they sold.

  • @billr8667
    @billr8667 7 місяців тому +2

    Since Renner is my surname, the title caught my eye. My Renner family was located primarily in Indiana, but Renner is a fairly common name in Germany. It's an interesting story well-told. It's sad to see a homestead be abandoned and fall into disrepair. The place will likely be dismantled when the economics work for the property owner.

  • @dougtheviking6503
    @dougtheviking6503 7 місяців тому +7

    Was a nice place . Cant believe someone didnt buy it at some point

    • @armedfarm3429
      @armedfarm3429 7 місяців тому +4

      I guarantee it's owned by someone. Lots of hunting property now a days bought from owners of the old small farms. $$$$$$ If it has any tillable you rent that part out., or put in food plots, or plant trees.

  • @emerycreek8016
    @emerycreek8016 11 днів тому

    It's hard to witness. The former pride and joy. Once maintenance stops they can go fast. Especially when the roof starts to go. Fixing a roof costs a lot, if the building isn't being used it won't happen. And those volunteer trees... Always a battle to keep them at bay!

  • @wdmm94
    @wdmm94 Рік тому +6

    There is another one on the farmstead at the SW corner of County Rd 45 and County Rd 153 in Crow Wing County. On can look at it on Google Street View. Exactly two miles south of CR 45 and CR117 intersection.

    • @HendersonHinchfinch
      @HendersonHinchfinch 2 місяці тому

      I tried finding it but I couldn’t. Any other hints?

    • @wdmm94
      @wdmm94 2 місяці тому +1

      Yeah, Google Maps / Big Data is rife with errors. County Rd 45 / SE 13TH St south of Brainerd. Thiesse Rd / CR 117 / Industrial Park Rd (West part). Exactly two miles south of that intersection is another section line crossroads labeled as Narrow Ln / 100th St / 43rd St / CR 153. 43rd St is 25 years outdated as the county renumbered all roads in 1999. There is a farmstead on the SW corner of that intersection. Not right on corner but west 200 - 300 feet. On street view silo is only real visible on CR 45 south a couple hundred feet from corner.

    • @wdmm94
      @wdmm94 2 місяці тому

      ​@@HendersonHinchfinchsee reply.

    • @HendersonHinchfinch
      @HendersonHinchfinch 2 місяці тому

      @@wdmm94 thank you! I will try to find it again. I love local historical stuff like this

  • @badoeno
    @badoeno Рік тому +18

    Many abandoned farmsteads across the Midwest. If the walls could talk...

  • @wdmm94
    @wdmm94 Рік тому +3

    I have seen one of those exact ACO silos at 1:38 somewhere else in Minnesota. I want to say somewhere off the highways that go from Canby or Madison up to Willmar country. I always thought that said " ARCO" from a long ways away.

  • @berthacornejo5054
    @berthacornejo5054 7 місяців тому +3

    Heart breaking 💔 to see such beautiful buildings go to waste, who owns the land now? How come nobody is taking care of it? So many questions now!!!!

  • @fredholthaus437
    @fredholthaus437 7 місяців тому +2

    Reminds me of my grandfather s farmstead in Kansas

  • @7viewerlogic670
    @7viewerlogic670 8 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for the great video.

  • @hankfrankly7240
    @hankfrankly7240 Рік тому +15

    And so it goes. Future owners brought the property for the land and not the buildings. Anyone with any ties to the property had moved on and history is all that's left.

    • @rodneyferris4089
      @rodneyferris4089 Рік тому +2

      So sad. Here in Manitoba we have wonderful old houses on farms that ended up as granaries and now are just crumbling!

    • @thebeardfarmer7862
      @thebeardfarmer7862 Рік тому +11

      Not true, I'm Carl's great great grandson. Still owned and run by Renners

    • @hankfrankly7240
      @hankfrankly7240 Рік тому +3

      Thanks for the information. Property still in the family. Families decision to move on from the homestead.

    • @brucerodbro7188
      @brucerodbro7188 11 місяців тому +3

      Fun video. Renner did ok in America. Was surely proud owning a nice farm with nice buildings. Those people worked and worked and worked. His genes are still digging in on that chunk of Minn land. Land of opportunity still producing for the Renners. Love it.

    • @Granny2470
      @Granny2470 7 місяців тому +2

      @@thebeardfarmer7862 why didn’t anyone in the family keep the house etc up and live there?

  • @rolfekurtyka-realestateexa6078

    Why would they stucco over brick?

  • @Oliver-1755
    @Oliver-1755 7 місяців тому

    Too cold to heat and renovate unfortunately. Did you see the smokehouse with the bar across the top?

  • @BillTheTractorMan
    @BillTheTractorMan 7 місяців тому +1

    I can only imagine how horribly cold those brick houses were compared to wood construction with insulation of the time.

  • @alanm2842
    @alanm2842 7 місяців тому

    how did you find this place if it was lost.

  • @johnobrien5440
    @johnobrien5440 4 місяці тому

    What a shame! Imagine the pride they took when they were building this; only for it to end up in runs and forgotten.

  • @suziqbrown7073
    @suziqbrown7073 7 місяців тому

    i wonder if they are related to the ochs family on veggie boys

  • @RolfeK
    @RolfeK 7 місяців тому +1

    Why would they stucco over that beautiful brick?

  • @JayYoung-ro3vu
    @JayYoung-ro3vu 7 місяців тому +1

    It's a sad fact of the depopulation of the Great Plain.
    I grinned at the trees growing over the hay rake.
    I'm surprised that the land owner hasn't cleared the derelicts? He hasn't out of respect to the memory of the Renners? Around here, farmers will let buildings sit wrecked for so long before demolishing them for more tillable acreage or developers clear them to build platts/subdivisions.

  • @shortfatguy1
    @shortfatguy1 Рік тому +32

    This farmstead has gone the same way the MN government. So sad

  • @vondinkinsvon8919
    @vondinkinsvon8919 7 місяців тому

    Buildings have to have a roof or they will go down just a kid with some roofing nails could have saved it at one point in time

  • @janbastein7355
    @janbastein7355 7 місяців тому +2

    Renner sounds pretty German!

  • @chuckmyers7698
    @chuckmyers7698 7 місяців тому +2

    Love the video, sad history. Could do without the piano.

  • @very5ick112
    @very5ick112 7 місяців тому +2

    sad

  • @Granny2470
    @Granny2470 7 місяців тому +5

    I wonder why the boys didn’t just take over the family farm instead of moving onto some place else????