1940 Census: John H. Dieckmann, age 63, farmer
Ella Dieckmann, age 55
Viola, age 25, farm work
Lucinda, age 23, waitress - school
Ernst, age 20
Location: 695485 4281436 (newer house on Highway 94)
695435 4282187 (older house on Lost Valley Trail)
Acreage: 122.97
Contract price: $15,375
Property condemned on April 9, 1941
Condemnation price: $8,092
Today: 3 cisterns, several foundations of newer house; mound at older house
In 1940, as a driver from Hamburg approached the Muschany
Hollow Road corner, he would pass within a stone's throw of
the J. Henry Dieckmann home on Highway 94. Mr. Dieckmann,
or Heinich as he was nicknamed, was a successful farmer who
raised corn, wheat, oats, and hogs. Turning north onto the
Mushany Hollow Road, the drive would pass one of Dieckmann's
barns on his right. In the fall of 1940, posters advertising a circus
in St. Louis covered its walls.
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| The farm's older home |
