Hale Farm and Village

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AERIAL VIEW OF THE HALE FARM AND WESTERN RESERVE VILLAGE NEAR BATH AND AKRON, OHIO. OPERATED BY THE WESTERN RESERVE... - NARA - 558063.jpg
Aerial view of Hale Farm and Village in 1975
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Location2686 Oak Hill Rd., Bath, Ohio
Coordinates 41°11′35″N81°35′33″W / 41.19306°N 81.59250°W / 41.19306; -81.59250 Coordinates: 41°11′35″N81°35′33″W / 41.19306°N 81.59250°W / 41.19306; -81.59250
Built1825
NRHP reference No. 73000258 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 23, 1973

Hale Farm and Village is a historic property of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, United States. It is within the boundaries of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Hale Farm was the original homestead of Jonathan Hale, a Connecticut farmer who migrated to the Western Reserve in 1810. In 1973 Hale Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Jonathan Hale Homestead. [1] The Hale House was built in 1825.

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Jonathan Hale house in 1936

The Western Reserve Historical Society opened Hale Farm in 1958 after receiving the property from Clara Belle Ritchie, descendant of Jonathan Hale. [2]

The eastern half of Hale Farm and Village is a living history museum that has a variety of historical buildings, most relocated from elsewhere. This recreated village is called Wheatfield. The majority of Wheatfield's structures are inhabited by people who present information on their location but acknowledge the modern world. This technique is known as third-person interpretation. First-person interpretation means that the inhabitants of a structure work as actors who play out the livelihood of a certain year and setting. The timeframe reenacted by the first-person interpreters at Wheatfield was 1862 in 2007. Each year, the actors will move forward one year, until they reach 1865, the end of the American Civil War, at which point they will revert to 1861, which was the beginning of the war. They also offer programs such as A Fugitive's Path to Freedom.

Hale Farm and Village also has demonstrations of various nineteenth-century trades such as candle, broom, and brick making, glass blowing, and a blacksmith shop.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Western Reserve Historical Society, The First Hundred Years 1867-1967 published 1968