Possibly owned by Gordon F Nelson at one time. On east side of Artichoke Lake close to an old one room school. I want to say it was district 53 but I'm not totally sure if I'm remembering correctly.. He raised cattle there but never lived there himself. I think he called it Lakeshore Stockfarm at one time.

Redfields owned it then Gordon Nelson my Dad bought it from Gordon. Walter Hornsten lived on the farm site.

If I remember correctly I think my dad, Gordon Nelson, you still land around the building site as the past year for his cattle. He had also purchased that school house which was north and east of the building site right along the road and used it as a home for migrant workers from Texas when he raised sugar beets in the area back in the 1960s.

This was likely the original homestead of Christoffer Johnson/Sovig around 1870, who later took a homesteaded a mile east. A Big Stone County history book states that a Christoffer Sovig settled here in 1869, but an 1870 map shows Christoffer Johnson living here, which is also the name on the homestead record of the same year. An 1899 map shows CJ Sovig living here again, so it is likely that Sovig and Johnson were the same person. At any rate, by the 30's, the farm was owned by F.E. Hoover and rented out to Ole & Anna Hendrickson. When Gordon Nelson owned the farm in the 50's and 60's, his hired man Charles Robertson lived here with his wife Bertha. Not sure who lived here when Vangsness' owned it in the 70's, but it has been abandoned for many years. Most of it was razed and plowed up several years ago.