Thomas Anderson Veblen and Kari Bunde Veblen Farmstead / History

Thomas Anderson Veblen and

Kari Bunde Veblen Farmstead

From 1866 to 1893 this farmstead was the home of the Veblen family one of the most prominent Norwegian immigrant families of the nineteenth century.

The most distinguishing trait of the Veblen family was its ...

Thomas Farm

Col. C. Keefer Thomas, a businessman, should have stayed in Baltimore. He was so sure a war eventually would rage around that city that he moved his family to this 240-acre farm, called Araby. Soon troops were marching through or ...

Thomas Farmhouse

About 4 p.m. Oct. 23, 1864 after their victory at Westport the Union leaders met here for consultation. Included were Generals Curtis, Blunt, Pleasonton and Dietzler; Gov. Carney and Sen. Jim Lane of Kansas. The Confederates had lost over 1,000 ...