Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. spent his youth on this farm, where he passed summers with his mother, Evangeline, while wintering in Washington, D.C., where his father, Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., worked, and as a teenager he lived here year-round and ran the farm. During World War I, bored by formal study, he left high school to farm full time, received credit for running the farm, and graduated on schedule. From 1918 until 1920, on the family's 110 acres, he raised cattle, hogs, sheep, geese, ducks, and chickens and grew oats, wheat, and other crops to aid the war effort, while constantly exploring ways to increase yields. After completing the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight on May 21, 1927, Lindbergh saw this land donated by his family to the State to be preserved as a state park in honor of his father, a lawyer and U.S. Congressman. The Lindbergh home has been designated as a National Historic District and is managed by the Minnesota Historical Society.