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By Cosmos Mariner, June 27, 2022
Home of the First Pivot Irrigation System in Canada Marker
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1 ► Alberta, Forty Mile County, Burdett — Home of the First Pivot Irrigation System in Canada — Burdett —  |
| This pivot point and two towers are part of the first two water drive pivot systems introduced to Canada by Donald and Wyman Campbell. They arrived in the Burdett area on May 11, 1962 from the Valley Manufacturing Co., Valley, Nebraska, USA. The . . . — — Map (db m201765) HM | |||
| 2 ► Nebraska, Platte County, Columbus — 523 — Frank Zybach — Inventor of the Center Pivot Irrigation Machine — |
| Born in 1894, Frank Zybach grew up in Loup Township, Platte County, Nebraska. He began inventing at age 13. In 1948, he developed a prototype of a self-propelled sprinkler irrigation machine. In 1952, the “Zybach Self-Propelled Sprinkling . . . — — Map (db m181698) HM | |||