THE PROBSTFIELD FARM

German immigrant Randolph Probstfield was one of the first permanent white settlers in what is now Clay County. Arriving in 1859, he went to work for the Hudson’s Bay Company at Georgetown. In 1868 he built a log home on this point and began farming. Probstfield experimented with a wide variety of vegetables and other crops including his own tobacco. The Probstfield house is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by the Probstfield Living History Farm.