INDIANAPOLIS — For their role in preserving Meltzer Farm in Shelbyville in Shelby County, Kris Meltzer and Karen Meltzer-Armstrong won the 2021 John Arnold Award for Rural Preservation, to be presented by Indiana Landmarks and Indiana Farm Bureau on August 5 at the Celebration of Agriculture, hosted by the Indiana State Department of Agriculture at the Indiana State Fair.
Frederick Meltzer moved from Germany to Shelby County and purchased the homestead in 1857. It’s been farmed continuously by the family ever since, with siblings Kris Meltzer and Karen Meltzer-Armstrong currently overseeing the production of corn and soybeans on the farm’s 100 tillable acres. Today, the farm includes an original farmhouse and timber-frame barn dating to the 1850s, log barns, a log cabin, a one-room brick schoolhouse, gas well, artesian well, an outhouse, and an old growth forest.
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