Winnemucca Farms history

Thousands of whites entered Nevada after the discovery of silver in 1859, and the inevitable conflicts began.

In 1860 he bought two wagons and twelve oxen and formed a freight company.

8). But others in the valley were not so sanguine and the cavalry fort Camp Winfield Scott was established in 1866.

Winnemucca, city, seat (1873) of Humboldt county, in northwestern Nevada, United States, on the Humboldt River.

In 1879 Stock went back to Germany and married Wilhelmina Christina Wahague (or Wahagen or Wahaugen) from Strücken, a village very near Exten.

Acquisitions led to the growth of the holdings, including Stock's 1883 buyout of his partner.

In 1900, Butch Cassidy’s gang robbed the First National Bank of Winnemucca.

After her husband's death, Wilhelmina ran the operation with the help of her children and nephew, William Huck, until her death in 1910.

Carter Agri-Systems had its beginning in 1927.

Vera Carter Reid, Arthur's sister, was also interested in selling merchandise, and in 1929 she went into partnership with her brothers Arthur, Lafayette, and their mother.

Also in 1961, Phil bought the Reid and Carter's Store from his father and changed the name to Carter's Country Store.

The name of the new equipment business became Carter Agri-Systems.In 1978, Gilbert Griffin married Phil and Ludean's daughter, Jeanne.