National Historic Landmark-Bagg Bonanza Farm

National Historic Landmark - Frederick A. and Sophia Bagg Bonanza Farm

The Bagg Bonanza Farm represents the broad patterns of Bonanza farms, which according to the -Atlantic Monthly- in 1880, were-destined to exercise a most potent influence on the production of all food products, and work a revolution in the great economies of the farm-

Bonanza farms, or -farm factories-, are significant components of our national agricultural history, representative of the importance of federal land policies, and of technological and scientific advances to American agricultural production, and the impact of American urbanization - concentrated markets for farm products - and transportation development on national settlement patterns.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks