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| | Walworth County Fair honors farms | The Janesville Gazette | Janesville, Wisconsin, USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | The Ferry Farm is one of four being honored by the Walworth County Fair as a sesquicentennial family farm. |
 | | Some Walworth County families, like the Ferrys, can trace their histories back generations, back before Wisconsin was a state. |
 | | According to a family history submitted to the Walworth County Fair, Joseph Meyerhofer was 16 when his father, Nikolass, and stepmother, Margaret, brought him, two brothers and two sisters to Walworth County from Bavaria, Germany, in 1846. |
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