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The farmer Samuel Bedient Olmstead (1843-1881) and his family worked the original 160-acre piece of property four miles east of Ellensburg, WA, beginning in 1875. Olmstead first erected a cottonwood log cabin, a structure that was used until the early 20th century. A second residence on the farm, built in 1908 was erected by Samuel Olmstead's descendants. The Olmstead operated a cattle ranch and dairy on their acreage; over the years the farm contained a dairy barn for housing cows, shelter for milking cows, shelter for wagons and carriages, granary and tool house. The granary and barn predated 1908. The Olmstead Family donated 217 acres to the State of Washington in 1969 for use as a state park, and as a demonstration museum depicting Euro-American pioneer life.

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