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In the early 1920s, Salt Lake County had over two dozen farming communities, many of which were participating in agricultural improvement activities. Many areas now considered commercial or residential were once the site of farms or dairies. Examples of this were Plainview Farm in Draper and a farm owned by Niels August Pierson that was once located in Midvale.
Plain View Farm
Plain View Farm in 1922
Plain View Farm belonged to the Sjobolm family and was part of a thriving farming community. As of 1922, Plainview Farm was one of 90 farms in the Draper area. One of the farm's owners, Andrew Sjobolm, was the Director of the State Extension's Community Executive Committee for the Draper area. In 1922 Sjobolm led several agricultural improvement projects, including efforts to create a milk cooling and separating plant to serve the community.
Plain View Farm, 1981
Mel Lewis Collection, P0683
Multimedia Archives
Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
The barn of Plainview Farm remained standing well into the late 20th century as indicated by the photograph above, taken in 1981.
Original location of Plain View Farm, 2009
Today, what was once an integral part of an agricultural community has been replaced, transformed into a suburban shopping complex.
N.A. Pierson Farm - Center Street, Midvale
N.A. Pierson house, ca. 1937
N. A. Pierson house (behind trees on the left), 2009
This farm, owned by N.A. Pierson in the 1920s and 1930s, was located about two blocks west of the current Midvale Center Trax Station on the north side of Center Street (7720 South). Pierson participated in a number of State Extension projects as indicated by the photographs below.
N.A. Pierson and his certified wheat crop, 1922.
At the farm of N.A. Pierson in Midvale. A field excursion in the interest of potato disease studies, 1922.
Harvesting seed wheat at the N.A. Pierson farm, 1922.
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