The App tells the story of the Hutmacher farmstead with over 50 minutes of video content.
This App allows visitors to experience the Hutmacher farmstead in its natural state while having access to information that would typically be part of a museum display.
The Hutmacher App is organized into seven story lines that can be selected from the Story Line menu.
The Hutmacher Site
Building a Stone Slab House
How the Hutmacher Site was Saved and the Restoration Effort
Stories Told by the Hutmacher Family
Homesteading the Prairie
Pioneer Life
The Germans from Russia Ethnic Group
About the Hutmacher Homestead.
Standing alone in the open prairie of western North Dakota the Hutmacher stands as an authentic example of typical homestead era family farm.
The peacefulness of the surroundings allows one to drift back in time when life was simpler but more a matter of survival. The remote location lends itself to imagining what it might have been like for Valentine Hutmacher and his family to arrive at this site with nothing around but the open prairie and the effort it would have taken to build a house out of the available clay and stone.
The site is dedicated to the memory of a generation of immigrants who came to the open prairie, endured hardships and made sacrifices to build a better life for their children and grandchildren. Their example left a living legacy for future generations.