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About Hale Farm & Village. In 1810 Jonathan Hale purchased 500 acres from the Connecticut Land Company for land located in the Cuyahoga Valley. This portion of the country was referred to as the Western Reserve, an area defined by the south shores of Lake Erie to the 41st parallel, just north of Canton Ohio.
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 the southwestern Cuyahoga Valley sits a tall red brick house on over 140 acres of the Hale Farm and Village. Now a tourist destination and educational trip for school groups, the Hale Farm provides a window into 19th century valley farm life.
Together, the Hale farm house and village testify to the nineteenth-century Western Reserve experience. At the farm house, visitors learn about the personal struggles and triumphs of Jonathan Hale and his family. The surrounding village presents additional aspects of life in the 1800s, including different forms of civic and religious participation.
Nov 9, 2021 · In 1810, farmer Jonathan Hale arrived in Bath to begin a new life on the Western Reserve. C.O. Hale. Courtesy Peninsula Library & Historical Society. For over one hundred years, generations of the Hale family worked and managed their land.
Historic Farming Today. In 1810 Connecticut farmer Jonathan Hale purchased 500 acres from the Connecticut Land Company in the Cuyahoga River Valley section of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Hale Farm and Village showcases agrarian life in the new state of Ohio.
