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| Title | Oral history interview with Ralph & Richard Dreessen |
| Interviewee | Dreessen, Ralph ; Dreessen, Richard |
| Interviewer | Finchum, Tanya |
| Interview Date | 2009-06-17 |
| Farm Name | Dreessen-Smith Farm |
| County | Logan |
| About the Farm | The Dreessen-Smith Farm, located in Logan County, was designated an Oklahoma Centennial Farm in 1996. At the time of designation the farm was co-owned by the nine Dreessen children, Ralph, Bernice, Cora, Alice, Barbara, Frances, Mona, Bernard, and Richard. The original 160 acre farm was homesteaded in 1889 by Richard and Cora Bell Smith, grandparents of the Dreessen children. |
| Abstract | Oklahoma Centennial Farm; Logan County, Oklahoma; Dreessen-Smith Farm; Ralph and Richard Dreessen, grandsons of Richard and Cora Bell Smith; acquiring the land; acreage; stone covered all weather spring; year round water source; spring used as refrigerator; house and pond; general farm; domestic farm animals; cattle; alfalfa; corn; cotton; sharecropper; sharecropper house; fruit trees; Guthrie, Navina, Seward; railroad; full time farmer; windmill; water storage tank; running water in the house; mineral rights; chores; milk cows; garden; baling hay; team of horses; tractor; farmhouse and running water; county agent and terracing; soil conservation; ponds; CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) tree planting; WPA, teams of horses and slips, building Lake Carl Blackwell; barns; lumber from the farm; chicken house; wood stove; horned Hereford breeder; community fair; home demonstration club; gardening and canning vegetables; 100 quarts of everything; cellar; Sunday; fishing; hired hands; thrashing machine; thrashing ring; straw stack; first combines; school; transportation to school; grasshoppers; turkeys; holidays; soda pop; neighborhood; party line telephone; clothing; family meals; fried chicken; working farm; cattle; wheat; hay; parties; farmhouse; Oklahoma A & M (OAMC); hitchhiking; mailing laundry; Guthrie Carnegie Library; FAA and 4-H; selling the farm; education; and descendents of Richard and Cora Bell Smith. |
| Description | Richard & Ralph Dreessen were interviewed June 17, 2009 as part of the Oklahoma Centennial Farm Families Oral History Project. |
| Streaming Server Audio | mms://nilu.library.okstate.edu/OCF_013_audio |
| Digital Publisher | Oklahoma Oral History Research Program-Oklahoma State University |
| Collection | Oklahoma Centennial Farm Families |
| Interview Number | OCF_013 |
| Rights Management | This material may not be copied or reproduced without permission. For more information, contact the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at liboh@okstate.edu or call 405-744-7685. |
Description
| Title | Richard and Ralph Dreessen |
| Interviewee | Dreessen, Ralph ; Dreessen, Richard |
| Farm Name | Dreessen-Smith Farm |
| County | Logan |
| About the Farm | The Dreessen-Smith Farm, located in Logan County, was designated an Oklahoma Centennial Farm in 1996. At the time of designation the farm was co-owned by the nine Dreessen children, Ralph, Bernice, Cora, Alice, Barbara, Frances, Mona, Bernard, and Richard. The original 160 acre farm was homesteaded in 1889 by Richard and Cora Bell Smith, grandparents of the Dreessen children. |
| Abstract | Oklahoma Centennial Farm; Logan County, Oklahoma; Dreessen-Smith Farm; Ralph and Richard Dreessen, grandsons of Richard and Cora Bell Smith; acquiring the land; acreage; stone covered all weather spring; year round water source; spring used as refrigerator; house and pond; general farm; domestic farm animals; cattle; alfalfa; corn; cotton; sharecropper; sharecropper house; fruit trees; Guthrie, Navina, Seward; railroad; full time farmer; windmill; water storage tank; running water in the house; mineral rights; chores; milk cows; garden; baling hay; team of horses; tractor; farmhouse and running water; county agent and terracing; soil conservation; ponds; CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) tree planting; WPA, teams of horses and slips, building Lake Carl Blackwell; barns; lumber from the farm; chicken house; wood stove; horned Hereford breeder; community fair; home demonstration club; gardening and canning vegetables; 100 quarts of everything; cellar; Sunday; fishing; hired hands; thrashing machine; thrashing ring; straw stack; first combines; school; transportation to school; grasshoppers; turkeys; holidays; soda pop; neighborhood; party line telephone; clothing; family meals; fried chicken; working farm; cattle; wheat; hay; parties; farmhouse; Oklahoma A & M (OAMC); hitchhiking; mailing laundry; Guthrie Carnegie Library; FAA and 4-H; selling the farm; education; and descendents of Richard and Cora Bell Smith. |
| Description | Richard (left) and Ralph (right), the youngest and the oldest of the nine Dreeseen children. |
| Digital Format | image/.jpg |
| Digital Publisher | Oklahoma Oral History Research Program-Oklahoma State University |
| Collection | Oklahoma Centennial Farm Families |
| Interview Number | OCF_013 |
| Rights Management | This material may not be copied or reproduced without permission. For more information, contact the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at liboh@okstate.edu or call 405-744-7685. |
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