08/29/2026
Here is a sneak peek of the upcoming new exhibit at CCHS - Cass County Century Farms. The exhibit will be up just in time for the Log Cabin Festival, so be sure to check it out!
"Sidney Adams was born in Clark County Kentucky, in 1806, and came to Cass County in 1836. In 1838 he moved to the farm where he died. His son, James M. Adams, lived west of Harrisonville on the property that his daughter, Mary C. Ryle, and Pembrook S. Ryle Jr., purchased upon their marriage on July 30, 1882. They established their home on the place where she was born and where she had grown to young womanhood. This became their place of permanent residence, and here they spent the whole of their lives. When Mary died in 1937, her son, Claude M. Ryle, inherited all the 600 acres that had accumulated. Son, Raymond Samuel Ryle, farmed [sic] partners with Claude after World War II until purchasing 410 acres of the 600 in 1949.
Raymond and Susan Frances Hambright were married on March 16, 1943 and began dairy farming after WW II. He was an Army Air Force veteran and served as a sergeant from 1942 until 1945 and from 1944 until 1945 as an assistant crew chief on aircraft in England.
The Rlyles were awarded the Centennial farm award in 1976 for the remaining 46 acres left in continuous ownership before the last 13 acres were sold in 1978. The farm produced corn, soybeans, milo, hay, cattle and hogs.
Mary C. Ryle was born in the house where the present house stands. The current house was built in the late 1800s, and the original barn burned in 1969."
Cass County Century Farms pgs 3-4
