PROSPECTS OF STATE PARK IN COUNTY (1920)

PAMMELL, HAMLIN, POAGE, HANSEN, KILWORTH

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 9/1/2013 at 21:38:08

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Thursday, Sept. 23, 1920, pg. 1
PROSPECTS OF STATE
PARK IN COUNTY

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Prof. L. H. Pammell of Iowa
State College and member of Iowa
Park commission, was in Atlantic
last week looking over sites for
state parks.

It seems there is a prospect of
the old Hamlin homestead being
preserved in its present state by
being converted into a state park.
The farm is now owned by N. J.
Hansen who has promised to let
the state care for the old landmarks
until such a time as a state
park can be established there.

The old Hamliln home still stands
there and also the first courthouse
built in Audubon county. Both are
largely of walnut cut from the sur-
rounding woods. Iowa's largest
tree is on this farm, dead, with the
exception of one huge branch.

Scores of persons visit the place
on Sunday during the summer to
see the big tree and the old home
with its huge fireplace and walnut
trimmings. These remains of
pioneer days should be preserved.

Note: The old Hamlin homestead was the home of Nathaniel "Natty" Hamlin and Margaret Terrell "Peggy" Poage. The John Kilworth family lives on the property (2013).