Dennis McCarthy and his children, including daughter Jessie, homesteaded the current Younglund Ranch starting in 1912. Jessie McCarthy married Elmer Younglund in 1914 and they lived on Jessie’s homestead, with the family raising cattle and dry land wheat. Their grandchildren, Ladonna and Monty, and Monty’s wife Sandi, currently own and operate the original homesteaded ranch, running a calf/cow operation. Along with extended family members, five generations of the Younglund family have made their home at the ranch.

Marvin Ashby Tappy, known as “Jack,” set out at age 19 to homestead in 1910, and was able to prove up in 1920. He and his wife Effie expanded operations over time, and their granddaughter, Sandi, her husband Monty, and their family still operate and raise cattle on the Tappy Ranch today.

In 1910, William and Anna Schmeeckle boarded the Prairie Dog Express in Nebraska and stopped in New Raymer, Colorado to homestead on the Great Plains.  They grew dry land wheat.  From the times of the Great Depression, two World Wars, changes in farming technology, and a never-ending cycle of favorable and unfavorable weather, the Schmeeckle Farm continues to produce agricultural products.  Dale and Edith Schmeeckle were the next guardians of the farm, and during their time the farm expanded and became even more successful.  Today the owners of the homestead are the

Constructed in 1925 for Odes Addington, owner of the local Texaco bulk fuel plant, the Star Filling Station played an important role in the town’s automotive transportation service economy by provided farmers, town residents, businesses and travelers with automotive fuel, lubricants and minor services until 1965.

Constructed by contractor James Benton Coulter of Fort Morgan for Joseph Quinn, a twenty-seven-year-old U.S. National Bank employee from Denver, the State Bank of Raymer is important for its association with the development of financial services in the rural town of New Raymer.

Ed and Minnie Fiscus took over a relinquished homestead in April of 1917 and purchased adjacent acreage to increase the property to 800 acres. The farm has primarily been involved in cow and calf operations, but a portion is used to raise wheat, dryland corn, and alfalfa. This portion is now enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program.

The 1909 Truxaw & Kruger Grocery/Seldin’s Cash Grocery is important for housing commercial businesses that contributed to the development of New Raymer as a railroad and market town for the surrounding dryland farming and ranching district.

In 1909 Alex and Clara Kindvall built a sod home on their newly acquired 320-acre Weld County homestead.  They lived in their sod house for fifty years, raising kids Otis and Doris.  On the farm they raised a different sort: livestock, including horses, hogs, chicken, and both cattle and dairy cows.

When the Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909 was passed, it inspired Daniel Voorhees Stanley to move his family from the coal mining strife of Lafayette to a 313-acre homestead next to Hightower Spring in northeastern Weld County. 

Ernest and Pearl Knoll purchased a 160-acre homestead relinquishment near New Raymer in 1913 and quickly built a homestead shack on the west side of the property.