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The Catalpa Tree on the Napientek Homestead, Summer, 1977

The Catalpa Tree on the Napientek Homestead

The catalpa tree in the front yard of our family farm is still living today. As far as we know our parents planted the tree. There are six of us. Pa and Ma referred to us children as “first and second crop hay” as they had two girls and a boy (like first cutting of […]

The main red barn was built in 1877. Photo courtesy of Peter J. Mandli, 2010.

Barg Homestead, Franklin, Wisconsin

In the 1860s, an 83-acre property on what was then Smith Road, now South 51st Street, in Franklin, Wisconsin was bought by our great grandfather, Johann (John) Barg and his wife Maria (nee Tietgen). The Barg homestead’s main barn was erected in 1877. Later, his son, our grandfather, Edward J. Barg and his wife Annette […]