Hoosier Homesteads
In 1976, former Lieutenant Governor Robert D. Orr and the Indiana Department of Commerce's Division of Agriculture, now the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, created a statewide program called the Hoosier Homestead Award.
The program recognizes farms that have been owned by the same family for one hundred years or more and stresses the contributions these family farms have made to the economic, cultural and social advancement of Indiana. The farm must consist of more than 20 acres or produce more that $1000 of agricultural products per year. Awards are made for 100, 150, and 200 years—Centennial, Sesquicentennial, and Bicentennials Awards. About 4,500 such farms have been recognized.
Information of historical value on each Hoosier Homestead farm is deposited with the Indiana State Archives. There have been a number of successful applicants from Carroll County. A list follows of the award winners with the date of the original ownership of the land by that family.
- Armstrong, Thomas Bitler and Betty Sue Armstrong, 1850
- Armstrong Family, 1916
- Austin, Andrew Blair, 1845
- Baker, Carl A. and Mildred Million Baker, 1895
- Barnard, George, 1893
- Beard, Linda K., 1829
- Beard, John M., 1818
- Beckner, Roger D. and Julie K. Beckner, 1829
- Been, Benjamin S., 1845
- Benjamin, Mary C., 1889
- Billings, Donald J. and Charles T. Billings, 1881
- Black, Kim and Annette Black, 1895
- Blue, Fred P., 1837
- Bordner, Robert J. and Lola Dell Bordner, 1852
- Bowman, Mary Fouts and Pauline Fouts Kirkpatrick, 1854
- Brown, Curtis R. and Susan Brown, 1848
- Brown, Glenn A., 1873
- Brown, Robert L. and Quincine J. Brown, 1898
- Brown, Thomas C., 1836
- Brubaker, Eva May Sink, 1827
- Brubaker, Blaine & Brenda, 1832
- Brubaker-Kingery Family, 1827
- Caldwell, Glay L. and Mamie Caldwell, 1866
- Calhoun, Patricia Thomson and Delores Thomson, 1854
- Calhoun, William, 1867
- Calhoun, William Webster, 1875
- Calvert, Mary P., 1844
- Carbaugh, Pauline E., 1895
- Childers Family, 1889
- Chittick, J.M., 1871
- Cohee, Luther M., 1835
- Cohee, Laurene and Gladys Ridder, 1886
- Cooke, Kenneth, 1835
- Crowel, Lucile, 1851
- Davis, Thelma Metsger, 1893
- Diener, David, 1900
- Dickinson, Donald D. and Patricia J. Dickinson, 1837
- Dillman Family, 1909
- Dillon, Robert and Elva Stephen Dillon, 1844
- Douglas, Effie S., 1869
- Downham Family, 1910
- Downham, John T., 1887
- Downham, John T. and Elizabeth Downham, 1887
- Egelhoff, Howard L. and May L. Egelhoff, 1856
- Fellows, Larry & Alice, 1915
- Flora, Hallie Mae Gwinn and Deloris Jeanette Flora, 1861
- Flora, George E., 1875
- Flora, Gordon Lee and Patricia Jane Flora, 1882
- Flora, Jack M. and Betty Flora, 1882
- Flora, Noah and Emma Flora, 1905
- Flora, Richard and Alan Thompson, 1905
- Forgey, Thomas I., 1869
- Fossnock, Dale E., 1897
- Fouts, Joseph K., 1831
- Frank, Evelyn, 1848
- Frey, Janice, 1864
- Funkhouser, Lewis H. and Richard Funkhouser, 1853
- Gasaway, Gladys, 1895
- Grantham, Richard and Polly Grantham, 1846
- Guckien, Nora E., 1852
- Guckien Family
- Hanna, Robert L. and George L. Hanna, 1830
- Hayes, Hazel D., 1881
- Herr, Robert Jones, 1893
- Hiatt, Jack and Mary Hiatt, 1864
- Hood, Frank, 1863
- Jervis, Marvin V., 1851
- Johnson, Lawrence and Mary Ellen Johnson, 1869
- Jones, Carl, 1902
- Jones, Charles L. and Eva M. Jones, 1870
- Kearns, Robert William, 1876
- Kennedy, Mary Agnes, 1870
- Klinker, Nancy J. and Gerald F. Klinker, 1887
- Knight, Taylor and Sarah Lorene Hayes Knight, 1876
- Koble, Edwin D., 1864
- Landes, Carl F. and Marjorie Landes, 1893
- Landes, Max, Jr. and Winifred Landes, 1839
- Landis, Gladys, 1866
- Leahy, Peter and Anthony Hanrahan, 1876
- Lohrman, Wayne and Marian Lohrman, 1895
- Mabbitt, Margaret, 1837
- Martin, C. Gardner, 1842
- Martin, William J., 1846
- Martin, Fred and Martha Martin, 1864
- Martin, Ernest, 1834
- Martin, Robert A., 1848
- Mathews, George, 1829
- Maxwell Farm, 1895
- McCain, Adriene B., 1855
- McCain, Fred L. and Gordon E. McCain, 1865
- McCain, John R., 1830
- McCormick, Mary, 1890
- McDowell, John C., 1826
- Mears, Bertha, 1881
- Mikesell, Paul, 1864
- Milburn, Henry and Cheryl, 1833
- Miller, Timothy L., 1860
- Miller, Erdene, 1848
- Miller, Gerald E., 1888
- Miller, Donald R. and Elizabeth Hershberger Miller, 1848
- Million, Esther Clayton, 1855
- Million, Cecil S., 1851
- Mills, Steven Brent, 1860
- Modisett, Tom Fouts, 1872
- Moore, Isa Mabel, 1865
- Moss, Jack and Betty Moss, 1886
- Moyer, Marion Sibbitt, 1853
- Mullin, Merlin and Deloris Mullin, 1901
- Mullin, Lewis N., 1834
- Mullin, Mabel E., 1834
- Mullin, William, 1877
- Myer, Kenneth H. and Donnabelle Myer, 1834
- Mylet, John J. and Joseph O. Mylet, 1863
- Newell, Kenneth Powell, 1855
- Orem Family
- Peterson, Joseph E. and John C. Peterson, 1888
- Peterson, Elsie M., 1875
- Pullen, Carol and Jane Pullen, 1885
- Reiff, Elmer, 1918
- Roach, Donald E. and Mary E. Roach, 1887
- Robbins, Belle, 1882
- Robertson, Ray and Eileen Pullen, 1882
- Robeson, Leroy, 1864
- Robeson, Charlene Yeager, 1843
- Sandifur, James F. and Nellie R. Sandifur, 1837
- Schnepf, Esther Wingard and Fritz G. Schnepf, 1835
- Schnepp, Robert J., Mary and Leslie Allen Schnepp and Patricia VanHoosier, 1888
- Scott, Ivan L. and Janet E. Wilken, 1855
- Scott Family, 1888
- Seward, William Floyd, 1835
- Shaffer, Paul E., 1886
- Shultheis, Charles R., 1865
- Sink, June, 1826
- Sink, Doris and J.L. Kirkpatrick Beougher, 1886
- Smith, Mrs. Cleon, 1847
- Smock, John, 1885
- Smock, William Gelder and Elizabeth Smock Wickman, 1856
- Snoeberger, Mabel, 1872
- Snoeberger, John E., 1863
- Snoeberger, G. Richard and Wiladean Snoeberger, 1848
- Snoeberger, G. Richard and Wiladean Snoeberger, 1865
- Soyland Farms, 1854
- Sparks, Barney V., 1834
- Spencer, Martha, 1832
- Stephen, Grace M., 1878
- Stephen, Samuel & Malinda Smith Stephen, 1844
- Taylor, Susan Blue, 1848
- Thomson, Mrs. James N., 1838
- Todd, Rive, 1876
- Wagoner, Leland G., 1830
- Wasson, Robert L., 1869
- Wharton, Mabel P., 1835
- Wilson, Nellie and Robert D. Wilson, 1873
- Wingard, Robert G., 1842
- Wise, Robert L., 1830
- Yeager, Helen, 1893
- Yeakley, Kenneth, 1853
- Yerkes, Dean E., 1856
- Yerkes Family, 1914
