While traveling to an Old Settler’s Picnic, James and Nora Brophy stumbled upon a 360-acre farm nestled in a neat little valley near Eckley, Colorado. Shortly thereafter, in 1918, they purchased the property, now known as the Brophy Homeplace. The couple moved with their four children and started a new life in Yuma County, where the family welcomed eight more children. The Brophys grew watermelon, corn, and cane to feed their cowherd, while keeping a handful of horses to pull farm machinery. The couple’s son, James “Jim” P. Brophy V, and his wife, Dorothy, farmed the land for many decades beginning in the early 1960s. Today the acreage producing corn, wheat, and pinto beans is farmed and managed by the children and grandchildren of Jim and Dorothy, making the Brophy Homeplace a fourth generation farm.