Welcome to North Farm’s History Section
Because our history is long, well-documented, and rich, this section is a space where residents can both learn about our past and, equally important and engaging, participate in the reconstruction of our community’s historical record by submitting documents, photographs, and other appropriate memorabilia, thus creating a patchwork quilt of artifacts rather than a dry narrative. In this way, all residents are invited to become “historians” of North Farm on the Bay. The page does not attempt to serve as a comprehensive narrative history but rather a place where residents can both learn and, by submitting artifacts and documents, teach about our storied history.
Based on historical materials already in North Farm’s possession, we’ve outlined three divisions: The Early Days, The Dairy Farm, and The Planning and Marketing that eventually became North Farm on the Bay.
Because so much of North Farm’s published history documents the plantings of George Rogers Hall, a brief history appears in “The Early Days,” but the more substantive Arboretum history is documented under the Arboretum Committee tab heading so as not to overwhelm this general history section, which we hope will illuminate other aspects of North Farm’s past.
We hope that these sections will expand or be reorganized based on community involvement. Materials may be submitted to the North Farm office, where a file has been established to collect and curate residents’ contributions.