The App tells the story of the Hutmacher farmstead.
This App allows visitors to experience the Hutmacher farmstead in its natural state while having access to information that would typically be part of a museum display.
Topics Include:
The Hutmacher Site: Information about each structure on the site.
The Stone-Slab Construction Technique: How the buildings were constructed.
The Effort to Preserve and Restore the Buildings.
The Hutmacher Family: Family History and Interviews with family members who grew up on the site.
The App also contains topics to allow users to understand the site in its historical context.
The Homestead Act
Pioneer Life
A History of the Germans from Russia
About the Hutmacher Farmstead.
Standing alone in the open prairie of western North Dakota the Hutmacher stands as an authentic example of typical homestead era family farm.
The peacefulness of the surroundings allows one to drift back in time when life was simpler but more a matter of survival. The remote location lends itself to imagining what it might have been like for Valentine Hutmacher and his family to arrive at this site with nothing around but the open prairie and the effort it would have taken to build a house out of the available clay and stone.
The site is dedicated to the memory of a generation of immigrants who came to the open prairie, endured hardships and made sacrifices to build a better life for their children and grandchildren. Their example left a living legacy for future generations.
Note: Video content is not available in this version.