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Kadlec farm reaches 150 years of family ownership

The most recent generations of Kadlecs: from left, Jerry and Judy Kadlec, Theodore, Anton, Nikolas, Marata and Tony Kadlec.

The Kadlec farm has officially been declared a sesquicentennial farm by the the Minnesota Farm Bureau. The Minnesota Farm Bureau honors families who have owned their farms for at least 150 years, are at least 50 acres in size, and are currently involved in agricultural production.
The Kadlec farm, presently owned by Tony and Marata Kadlec and Tony’s parents, Jerry and Judy Kadlec, is 160 acres and located north of Highway 7 and just west of Swan Lake. It is bisected by the Luce Line State Trail, which runs through it from east to west.
“Our family is the second owner of the actual land,” says Tony Kadlec, who has spent a lot of time researching his own family history along with the history of the surrounding Hale Township area.
The east half of the farm has been in the family since May 1866, when Tony Kadlec’s great-great-grandparents Josef and Fannie (Kutina) Kadlec bought the land for $400 from Samuel and Susan Gale, who lived in what is now Loring Park in Minneapolis.
“What you see now is the newer version of the farm,” says Tony Kadlec, talking about the buildings that stand on the farm now.
“There was a barn, hog house and a chicken coop that are gone now, along with a windmill that is no longer here,” says Jerry Kadlec.  
The original farmhouse was located north of what is now Highway 7, a bit west of where the Bohemian National Cemetery is located. The current house rests on the west end of the farm and turns 100 years old this year. It was built from trees that were cut down near the house and was finished when Jerry Kadlec’s father was just a little boy.
The Kadlec farm was sold by Fannie to her son Albin in 1905, which was then sold to his son Joseph and his wife Rose in 1949 and then purchased by Jerry and Judy Kadlec in 1978. Tony and Marata Kadlec purchased the homesite and three acres in 2015, and currently live there with their three sons, Theodore, Anton and Nikolas. Jerry and Judy Kadlec continue to rent the rest of the land to a nearby farmer.

For more, see the June 21 print edition of The Chronicle.