Английская Википедия:Griffith Breese Farm
The Griffith Breese Farm is a historic farmstead in southern Allen County, Ohio, United States. Established in 1840, the farm is one of the oldest white settlements in a formerly Native American area of northwestern Ohio, and it has been designated a historic site because of its unusually good degree of preservation.
Griffith Breese
The son of John Breese, Griffith was a native of Wales who immigrated to the United States in 1798.[1]Шаблон:Rp He married a Pennsylvania native, Mary Mowen, who bore him a son George in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, before they moved to Ohio.[1]Шаблон:Rp Breese bought six sections of land in present-day Shawnee Township,[1]Шаблон:Rp on lands that had once been part of the Hog Creek Indian Reservation.[1]Шаблон:Rp Moving his family to Section 10 of the township in 1834,[1]Шаблон:Rp they found that their new home was a former apple orchard: eighty apple trees and seven cabins of the Shawnee former residents occupied the site.[1]Шаблон:Rp During their first winter, they lived in the reservation's former council house,[1]Шаблон:Rp and Breese was elected to the first group of trustees of the Shawnee Township.[1]Шаблон:Rp By 1840, Breese had grown sufficiently prosperous that he was able to establish the present homestead.Шаблон:Citation needed The first of the four Federal buildings on the property were erected in that year,[2] and he bought additional land in northwestern Allen County's Marion Township five years later.[1]Шаблон:Rp Breese continued to live on the farm until his death in 1848.[1]Шаблон:Rp
Recent history
Today, the Griffith Breese Farm is a major historic site in Shawnee Township. With the decline in Lima's economy, Shawnee Township has become a suburban area; small shopping malls and modern housing developments surround the farm, and no other pioneer homestead in the township has been so well preserved.[3]
In recognition of its historic architecture, the Griffith Breese Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Four buildings, spread out over an area of Шаблон:Convert, qualified as contributing properties.[2]
References
Шаблон:NRHP in Allen County, Ohio
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 1,7 1,8 1,9 History of Allen County, Ohio: Containing a History of the County, its Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, etc., etc. Chicago: Warner, Beers, & Co., 1885.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокnrisне указан текст - ↑ Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 9-10.
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