The farm was originally purchased by Samuel K. Clark on a Warranty Deed dated August 25, 1899. His wife was Mary Clark. In 1950, the farm passed to their daughters, Ella Clark Adams and Marion Clark Brunner. Grandmother Ella Adams told her grandchildren that their family farm was originally a tree claim. Over the years, the family worked together during the Depression days to keep the farm. It has had sheep, chickens, cattle, pigs, sugar beets, and hay, and now is leased to the Hungenberg Produce company.

This year marks the centennial for the Milne Farm outside Lucerne in Weld County. James Milne purchased the 160 acres in 1888 from ex-senator Captain David Boyd, a prominent Greeley pioneer. Sugar beets and potatoes were among the early crops to be grown here. A fine brick late Victorian home constructed in 1892 still is in use today.

The Milne Farm is an historic agricultural complex that encompasses a farmhouse, agricultural buildings, and irrigated fields.  The Edwardian Vernacular style two-story red brick farmhouse was built in 1892 by James Grant Milne, a Scottish emigrant.

In the 1890s Adolf and Amelia Erickson emigrated from Boden, Sweden, to Weld County, where they originally homestead land several miles west of Evans in an area called the Ashton Farming District.