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Glen Dale Farm in Cornwall, Vermont, is a National Register Historic Property. Its property, which includes five contributing buildings, was listed as Glen Dale on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.〔 According to Mathews’ ''History of the Town of Cornwall'', Solomon Linsley settled the land that Glen Dale Farm occupies in 1774. The Town of Cornwall received its original charter from the Governor of New Hampshire dated November 3, 1761. The names of sixty-five original grantees are endorsed on the back of the charter, which is still preserved among the archives of the town. The first non-aboriginal settlers within the original bounds of the Town of Cornwall arrived in 1774. There were fourteen of them but Linsley was the only one whose name is on the original charter. It is recorded that Gamaliel Painter of Middlebury surveyed for Solomon Linsley on October 23, 1774. Although the original farmhouse does not stand, Linsley probably built the existing English barn around 1775, as it is representative of the first major type of agricultural buildings constructed in Vermont. ==Features== Significant features of the English barn include hand-hewn, post-and-beam, hardwood timber frame, with flared columns and half dovetail tenons on the girts. Sheathing boards visible from the inside appear to be original as they are up to 2 feet wide and fastened with hand-wrought nails. In the 18th century, this structure would have been a general-purpose barn, sheltering grain and hay crops as well as farm animals. The construction materials and remarkable joinery in the English barn speak eloquently of this period in local history. Glen Dale Farm attained its present appearance under the ownership of Milo B. Williamson, a breeder of Merino sheep and "gentleman's driving horses". The present Italianate style farmhouse and additional barns are pictured in Burgett's 1876 ''Illustrated and Topographical Atlas of the State of Vermont''. The barn complex is remarkably intact when compared to the Burgett illustration and constitutes one of the best surviving examples of nineteenth century stock and sheep farms in the state. The English barn is the second from the left as pictured in the Burgett lithograph. The two larger barns in front were built to house horses and carriages. The ventilated cupolas and the raking eaves trim are typical of barns built in Vermont during the 1870s and 1880s. The rearmost structure is the sheep barn, one of the few remaining unaltered such buildings in the state. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glen Dale Farm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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