Mbhs #: 0989
Year: 1979
Source: 1979 JaCo survey of historically valuable properties
Notes: The county wrongly assumed that this home was on the original George Hoffman homestead and had actually housed that family. We have confirmed with the current owner and a direct descendant that it was NOT built by or for the George Hoffman family. It was built by Helga Lund (b. 1885), a divorcee who immigrated from Norway in 1915 and became a naturalized citizen in 1927, around the time she made a homestead claim to these 10.3 acres and began building the cabin HERSELF. After peeling a log, she "would stop the postman or whoever came by to help her lift it." When she filed to make the 3-year proof of her claim in 1931, her witnesses included George Hoffman! Helga died in 1943. Jim and Emma Webber obtained the property and ran a lumber mill on the southern part, near where the one-room Thompson Creek School once stood. The Webbers sold to Leo and Ivy Hoffmann in 1956 and this parcel became part of the George Hoffman family holdings.
