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Lacrosse team and other local organizations. The farm also provided trees for the first Arbor Day celebration at Jaycee Park in the City of Blaine. The family was presented a certificate and gift card from Anoka County Extension by Extension Committee Chair, Juanita Reed-Boniface. The Minnesota State Fair, the Minnesota and Anoka County Farm Bureau annually recognize Minnesota Farms that have been in continuous family ownership for at least 100 years and are 50 acres or more. This year the DeLong Dairyvale Farm at Cedar, (Oak Grove) received the Century Farm recognition. It is the 23rd farm in Anoka County to be named a Century Farm. Raymond and Alice DeLong were newly married in 1924 when they purchased 118 acres in the township of Oak Grove for a total cost of$4200. Train tracks run through part of the dairy farm and there used to be a railroad station stop on this Cedar property. The original house had been built in 1875 and was home to the family until a new home was built in the 1990's on the same location. The farm featured dairy cows along with other animals including a pair of working mules. Corn was the primary crop along with potatoes and soybeans. Raymond and Alice loved having company at the farm and hosted many picnics with family and friends over the years. Their grandchildren have many memories of coming to the farm on Sunday. The extended family was among the founding families of the Cedar Cemetery in 1902 and assisted with clean up and rebuilding of properties impacted by the Anoka tornado in 1939 that leveled the church and took the roof off the school in Cedar. Today daughter Melissa DeLong Fager and her husband Kevan along with four of their children, daughter-in-law and grandchildren live on the property and rent the farmland out for growing corn.