Korus Farmstead
US-281 at Farm-to-Market Rd. 536, Leming, TXA recent comprehensive survey of Atascosa County identified the Korus Farmstead as one of the region's most intact agricultural properties. The Polish immigrant heritage of this area of south Texas stems from a small community along Gallinas Creek founded in the mid-19th century by Silesian Poles from the nearby colony of Panna Maria. Amongst these early settlers, the Korus family purchased this property from fellow immigrants in 1867. Representing more than a century of agricultural development in this rural community, the farmstead still remains in the family. Its late 19th and early 20th century dwellings and agricultural outbuildings express traditional vernacular rural design and construction techniques. A sizable tract of surrounding acreage continues to reflect agrarian land use patterns established during the period of significance, while a vast collection of material artifacts illuminates the cultural traditions of this ethnic group. The property is therefore nominated at the local level of significance under Criteria A and C in the areas of Agriculture, Architecture, Ethnic Heritage (European), and Exploration/Settlement.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
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