The Konju Farm and Homestead

The Konju Farm and Homestead is abandoned farmland in Annapolis, Maryland. First started as the Mikenheir Farm when bought by Richard Mikenheir in 1791, generations of the Mikenheirs owned the farm for generations until it was bought by James Konju in 1931. In 1987, Konju died and his wife Sarah took over the property. Konju's son Thomas moved in in 2000. Sarah died in 2002, and Thomas left the property in 2004 and it was abandoned for 11 years until Konju temporarily lived on the farm in 2015. The farm has been abandoned for 5 years and the city of Annapolis is considering buying the land.

History
Around the 1300s - 1700s, the farm was Native American Land. In 1791, a Dutch Immigrant named Richard Mikenheir arrived upon the farm with his wife Joan and his two sons Robert and Andrew. Mikenheir forced the Native Americans from the land and made it into a farm. In 1828, Mikenheir died and his son Andrew inherited the property. Joan died in 1835. So in 1835, Andrew along with his wife Maya and his son Matthew moved in. Maya died in 1856 and Andrew died in 1860. Matthew moved into the farm but left it to fight in the Civil War, with his 17 year old son Frederick watching the farm. Matthew was killed during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 so Frederick inherited the farm.

Frederick lived on the farm until he was 87, when he sold it to a teenager from Baltimore named James Konju. Konju's wife Sarah moved into the farm in 1933. Konju's son James was born in 1935, and Thomas was born in 1941. In 1946, Thomas escaped the farm.

The farm was attacked during the Battle of Annapolis, where James was killed. The farm however was safe, and Sarah managed the farm until her death in 2002. In 2000, while in hiding, Thomas moved into the farm, but left in 2004, to go back to New York. The farm was briefly used as a safe-haven by the Legion 5 during the Kibbian Conflict, and it was the location of the Skirmish of Konju Farm. It has been abandoned since 2015, and the City of Annapolis is considering buying it.

Geography
The farm is 450 acres. It features a house that was built in 1794 by Richard Mikenheir. It also has a barn built by Mikenheir in 1792. It formerly had a silo built in 1805 by Mikenheir but it was destroyed in 1987 during the Battle of Annapolis.

The house has two stories and a basement.