Daniel Pond Farmhouse

Pond, Daniel, Farmhouse
	Daniel Pond Farmhouse
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Daniel Pond Farmhouse
Location	76 US Hwy 14; Rutland, Wisconsin
Coordinates	42°50′58″N89°20′02″W / 42.84944°N 89.33389°W Coordinates: 42°50′58″N89°20′02″W / 42.84944°N 89.33389°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1850
Architect	Sereno W. Graves
NRHP reference #	80000128 [1]
Added to NRHP	June 30, 1980

Last updated August 30, 2019

The Daniel Pond Farmhouse, also known as Eggleston Farm, is a limestone-walled home built in Rutland, Wisconsin in the 1840s. In 1980 the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[2]

Limestone Sedimentary rocks made of calcium carbonate

Limestone is a carbonate sedimentary rock that is often composed of the skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, foraminifera, and molluscs. Its major materials are the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃). A closely related rock is dolomite, which contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO₃)₂. In old USGS publications, dolomite was referred to as magnesian limestone, a term now reserved for magnesium-deficient dolomites or magnesium-rich limestones.

Rutland is a town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,887 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Rutland and Stone are located in the town.

National Register of Historic Places Federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property.

History

The first permanent settlers in what would become the town of Rutland arrived in the summer of 1842, and staked claims near the Janesville and Madison Road - now US-14. They were the Dejeans, the Prentises, and Daniel Pond. This area lacked large natural water sources, so land speculators bypassed it, and the land was affordable to farmers without a lot of capital. Daniel was from Vermont and enough neighbors who followed were from the same state that the neighborhood came to be called the Vermont settlement. The farmers in the area quickly found wheat to be a practical, profitable cash crop.^[3]

Janesville is a city in southern Wisconsin, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Rock County, and the principal municipality of the Janesville, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 63,575.

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. As of July 1, 2018, Madison's estimated population of 258,054 made it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 81st-largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the Madison Metropolitan Area which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties for a population of 654,230.

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It borders the U.S. states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Vermont is the second-smallest by population and the sixth-smallest by area of the 50 U.S. states. The state capital is Montpelier, the least populous state capital in the United States. The most populous city, Burlington, is the least populous city to be the most populous city in a state. As of 2019, Vermont was the leading producer of maple syrup in the United States. In crime statistics, it was ranked since 2016 as the safest state in the country.

Pond probably had the 1.5-story section of the house built some time between 1844 and 1850 - probably designed by Sereno W. Graves, who farmed only a mile away and later became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. The walls are coursed small pieces of limestone, with the corner quoins larger blocks of dressed stone. A frieze board at the top of the walls leads to a moderately-pitched roof. The windows have wooden sills and lintels. Two one-story wings of similar stonework extend from the main block.^[3]

Sereno W. Graves was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

A window sill is the surface at the bottom of a window.

The house was home to Pond, his wife, and two children. Also on the farm lived his widowed mother-in-law, Temperance Munger with her son and daughter, and a single man, Stewart Shampmore.^[3]

By 1850 the Pond farm was prospering, worth about $2,000. That year the Ponds harvested 400 bushels of wheat, 150 bushels of corn, 500 bushels of oats, 150 bushels of potatoes, and 10 bushels of barley. Their sixty sheep produced 300 pounds of wool, and their five cows produced 100 pounds of cheese and 600 pounds of butter.^[3]

In 1854, James P. Kniffin and his family bought the farm. They continued to farm, adding 60 swine to the herd. In 1870 James retired, deeding the land to his son Lloyd. In 1874 John and Thomas Alsop bought the farm, and in 1893 the Petersons bought it.^[3]

Charles Peterson was born in Maribo, Denmark in 1861 and immigrated to America and Rutland with his family in 1869. He worked as farm labor, saving money, and in 1883 married Katie Hansen, another immigrant from Denmark. In 1889 they were able to buy 80 acres. Four years later he sold that farm to buy the 193-acre Pond farm. By 1906 the Petersons had added 160 acres to the farm. They grew nine acres of tobacco, 100 acres of corn, 50 acres of oats, and 25 of hay. Over the years the Petersons had ten children. Charles died in 1915 and Katie in 1930, but Petersons stayed on the farm until 1944.^[3]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.^[2] It is significant as part of an unusual cluster of stone buildings, including the Sereno W. Graves House, the Samuel Hunt House and the Lockwood Barn. The farm also exemplifies a typical pattern for the area, with its early settlement by Yankees who grew wheat, followed by Scandinavian immigrants in the late 1800s.^[3]

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References

↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 2013-11-02.
1 2 "76 US Highway 14". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Katherine H. Rankin (February 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pond, Daniel Farmhouse". National Park Service . Retrieved 2019-03-31. with six photos

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 2013-11-02.

[whs-2] 1 2 "76 US Highway 14". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-07-11.

[nrhpdoc-3] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Katherine H. Rankin (February 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pond, Daniel Farmhouse". National Park Service . Retrieved 2019-03-31. with six photos