Dave Burket and Burket Falls Farm

This is part five of a continuing series of articles about people who have called the Cove home. This week's article features Dave Burket and The Burket Falls Farm.

In the rural area of Blair County, known as Greenfield Township, in a section known as Pole Cat Hollow, is Burket Falls Farm. This farm is known worldwide for the registered Holstein dairy cattle with the polled (naturally hornless) and red hair coat genes that they have developed and bred. Today, over two-thirds of all polled Holstein in the world trace their roots to Burket Falls Farm.

The farm was established in 1928 by Frank W...