Emmet County Heritage Farm

Cronks live on same farm for 163 years

Deed first received in 1871

By Michael Tidemann
Posted 4/17/25

Five years after the Gardner massacre and a scant three months before the Minnesota Dakota uprising. Henry Cronk, who was born in Canada, on May 20, 1862, filed a homestead claim on 160 acres in …

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