Jonathan Hale Farm

Horton tells the fascinating story of the Hale Farm and its inhabitants from the time it was settled in 1810 by Jonathan Hale of Glastonbury, Connecticut, through several generations ending shortly after the farm was willed to the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1956. Based on letters, diaries, and other family papers, this account of one family and one house is also an excellent survey of the history and settlement of the Western Reserve of Connecticut. The author, a Harvard-trained historian, was a research specialist on the staff of WRHS.