The Johnson Family Farm
Logan County
In 1914 Benjamin and Claudia Johnson traveled from Arkansas to Washington County, Colorado, in a railroad boxcar with their son, Orville. There they purchased a 160-acre homestead, which they would later expand to 320 acres, on which they built a sod home.
Johnson Family Farm members including generations four and five.
In 1946, Orville and his wife Catherine expanded the farm even more, buying a ranch in Logan County where they began to raise cattle. The current owners, Orville’s son, Matt, and his wife, Cynthia, have added hay production and 250 cows to the farm. Today the fifth generation of the Johnson Family Farm is growing up on the 9,500-acre historic farm.
Ben Johnson on top of a large hay stack.