Mellenthin farm survives 150 years of good and hard times
One-hundred-year-old Harold Mellenthin sat at the head of the dining room table inside the house on the family farm that is also 100 years old located in Lynd Township in Lyon County. Younger members of the Mellenthin family sat along the table listening to the patriarch of the Mellenthin farming family share stories and history — often times with a sense of humor. Harold talked about the two German Lutherans “who didn’t know any better” and came out from Wisconsin to stake out land in southwest Minnesota near the community of Marshall more than 150
