Oliver H. Kelley Farm
Address:
15788 Kelley Farm Rd., Elk River MN 55330
Admission: $8 adults, $6 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Phone: 763-441-6896
Email:
kelleyfarm@mnhs.org
Website: http://www.mnhs.org/kelleyfarm
Step onto a working 1860s farm. Pick heirloom vegetables from the garden, visit the farmhands and animals at the barn, or churn butter and see what's cooking in the farmhouse. Oliver H. Kelley and his wife Lucy began farming the land on the banks of the Mississippi River in 1850. Kelley was the founder of the first successful national farming organization, the Patrons of Husbandry, better known as the Grange. The Kelley Farm is recognized as "The birthplace of organized agriculture in America."
