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The ownership remained in the Morgan family until 1910.”Ĭhristine Kendall said her grandfather was raised in Ledyard, and her grandmother in Old Mystic. “Samuel’s son, Daniel succeed him,” the write-up on the farm says, “and for three generations, this farm was owned by a Daniel Morgan. Different Daniel Morgans also served as town clerk and one as an acting magistrate. Later, James Morgan’s sons Daniel and Samuel farmed it, with Samuel serving as town clerk. The farm started in the early 1700s as James Morgan’s share of his father, John Morgan’s property, according to the book “Preston Homes and Families,” published in 1998 by the Preston Historical Society. The property and its owners have had a prominent role in Preston’s rich farming tradition and its government. Campgrounds and farms also would be allowed. Town Planner Kathy Warzecha said the property is in an R-60 residential zone for 1.5-acre house lots.
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“This scenic property is well-suited for an organic farm, horse property, golf course, campground or private getaway, or development of an upscale, tranquil community 15 minutes from the (Mohegan) Sun and Foxwoods,” the brochure states. The firm created a 23-page brochure with dozens of color photos of the historic 1792 Daniel Morgan farmhouse the Colonial-era, two-story barn three garages, one with a stable two pole barns two sheds and the rolling hills, woods, brook and farm pond with its fieldstone dam. The owners have listed the 226-acre Route 164 farm for $1.95 million with Realtor Mantas Laureckis of Seaport Real Estate Group, a subsidiary of Sotheby’s International Realty. “My grandfather told us ‘it’s a hard life, go to college.’ We’re not farmers.”Ĭhristine Kendall is an audiologist and her husband, an engineer. I hate to see it just sitting,” Christine Kendall said. They even “roughed out” nine holes and erected three permitted concrete bridges across scenic Broad Brook, which traverses the farm.īut that idea died when the Great Recession hit in 2008.
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The family obtained town approvals in 2000 for an 18-hole golf course on the portion west of Route 164 at 499 Route 164. Before her mother, Lucille Thoma, died in 2017, she had worked on possible alternative uses for the property. This piece is only one section of the total 670 acres of farmland her grandfather had purchased during his tenure and is the first to be put on the market.Ĭhristine and her husband, John, live on another 130-acre portion of the farm off Parks Road. Kendall, managing partner of farm owner White Gate LLC, said it’s time to sell the 226-acre farm that crosses Route 164 and has frontage on Parks and Krug roads. A few of the rolling pasture fields now just grow hay. The dairy farm, which dates to the early 1700s as the Morgan Farm, continued until 2008, when the barns and stables went idle. Watson died at age 72, falling from a defective seat on a running tractor in 1990. “He never took a day off, milking cows twice a day.” “My grandfather was a tireless worker,” Christine Kendall said one day last week, hiking a portion of her grandfather’s dairy farm on Route 164. A farm sitting idle without cows to be milked, or occasionally extracted from a low-sloped garage roof, was not in Philetus “Lete” Watson’s character, but he couldn’t recommend farming as an occupation to his grandchildren.