Editing Glenview, Illinois (section)

===Wagner Farm===
Wagner Farm is an {{convert|18.6|acre|adj=on}} farm owned by the Glenview Park District. Wagner Farm is the last remnant of a much larger farm which was owned and farmed by members of the Wagner family since their arrival in this area from Trier, Germany in the 1850s.  In 1997, Rose Wagner, the last surviving member of the Glenview Wagner family, died. Her will directed Glenview State Bank, the trustee for her estate, to sell the farm to the highest bidder with the proceeds to benefit her family parish, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Glenview. A group of local citizens approached the park district and asked the district to buy the farm and preserve it as an historic working farm for the education and enjoyment of the community. With citizen support, a referendum to approve funds to pay for the farm was approved by the voters in 1998 and the park district purchased the farm in 2000. In 2007, the farm had over 54,000 visitors. Also in 2007, Wagner Farm became home to the Glenview Farmer's Market.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 14, 2008 |title=Wagner Farm: A Brief History |url=http://glenviewparkdist.org/Wagner-Farm/history.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124232309/http://glenviewparkdist.org/Wagner-Farm/history.htm |archive-date=November 24, 2010 |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=Glenview Park District}}</ref>

Johann and Katharina Wagner came to the United States from their home in Weiler, Germany in the winter of 1855. They eventually settled in Gross Point (modern day Wilmette), an area with a high population of German immigrants. Over time, the Wagners established their home on the southeast corner of Lake Ave and Wagner Road, in the heart of what is present-day Glenview. By 1898, the Wagner farm encompassed approximately {{convert|91|acres}}, many of which have been replaced by housing and road development today. Johann and Katharina's youngest son, Thomas, married Julia Brachtendorf of the Northfield Township in 1892, and ten years later they purchased the Hoffman farm on the northwest corner of Lake Ave and Wagner Road. This is the area known as Wagner Farm today. The area was {{convert|40|acres}} then, but Thomas also inherited land on the northeast corner of the two roads. Thomas's siblings inherited this land in the farm's estate. Thomas and Julia had 5 children, 4 of whom remained on the farm for their entire lives. The farm was operated by Thomas' children until the last member of the family, Rose (1903–1997) died in 1997. Rose stated in her Will that the farm should be sold, and placed in trust for a local catholic church, and it remains a property of the Glenview Park District today.<ref>{{cite web|title=Historic Wagner Farm|url=http://wagnerfarm.org/|access-date=October 22, 2011|archive-date=September 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927060728/http://www.wagnerfarm.org/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Wagner Farm offers hands-on programs on the farm funded by the Glenview Park District. The programs themselves vary from season to season, but they include activities like horseback riding, tractor driving, and more activities that reflect the life of a farmer in the 1920s.<ref name="parks">{{cite web|title=Glenview Park District|url=http://glenviewparks.org/|access-date=October 22, 2011|archive-date=October 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026020817/http://www.glenviewparks.org/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Glenview's Farmers' Market was established in 1988 by the Glenview Women of Today. After years of running it, the group realized that maintaining the market was no longer in their interest. After the group abandoned the annual event, the Glenview Park District decided to move the market to Wagner Farm. This switch was historically suitable for the farm, given that at one point, Wagner was a truck farm that produced crops in bulk for the Chicago area. A spreadsheet of the number of crops per city that Wagner provides can be found on their website. In remembrance of Wagner's truck farming history, a market wagon was constructed, and is now in display in the museum. The Farmer's Market takes place between the days of June 25 to October 8, on every Saturday. It is located across the street from Wagner Farm, giving shoppers the opportunity to visit a working 20th-century farm. In addition to the food and other products that are produced by the farm, the Market features a different musical artist to perform each week.  It is a great, family-friendly, destination.<ref name="parks"/>