After Brook Farm
A man named John Plummer purchased the land that was Brook Farm in 1849 before selling it six years later to James Freeman Clarke, who intended to establish another community there. Instead, Clarke offered it to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War and the Second Massachusetts Regiment used it for training as "Camp Andrew". About 150 years after the founding of Brook Farm, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) of Massachusetts was able to purchase 148 acres (0.60 km2) of the original land. Most of the original buildings burned down, including the Margaret Fuller Cottage in the 1970s. The farm was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1965, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, part of the land on which Brook Farm stood is a nature reserve and part is used by the Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries.
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Famous quotes containing the words brook and/or farm:
“Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out
Upon the brook that brawls along this wood.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)