Talk:Brook Farm (Skaneateles, New York)

probably separate from the fictitious "Brook Farm" New York
There is an 1859 book about a fictitious "Brook Farm" New York, located near Pelham. They are presumably completely separate.

(Please help fix this erroneous image file.)

This image: is not from the famous BROOK FARM in Massachusetts. It is an image of "Pond Field Farm" in East Chester, New York.

This image is from this book:
 * http://archive.org/details/brookfarmamusing00lond
 * Brook Farm: the amusing and memorable of American country life (1859)
 * Publisher: London, Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt
 * Language: English
 * Call number: 1570336

The book describes the location thus:

A reviewer describes the book: "This book is by James Bolton, son of Robert Bolton, who owned the Pondfield Farm, in what is now Bronxville, NY. It has nothing to do with the Brook Farm community in Massechusetts. It is a memorial to the family life lived on Pondfield Farm in the early 1800's. The family also purchased 30 acres in what is now Pelham, NY and built the Bolton Priory there, the first example of neo-gothic architecture in the US, built in 1838."

This source explains that the book title is fictitious:
 * http://historicpelham.blogspot.com/2009/03/excerpt-from-book-published-in-1860.html

Thursday, March 26, 2009 Excerpt from Book Published in 1860 Provides Memories of Sundays at St. Paul's Church Before 1838

"Blake A. Bell is Town Historian and Town Clerk of Pelham, NY in Westchester County. He is also Village Historian of the Village of Pelham and is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Westchester County Historical Society (Executive Committee), the Pelham Preservation Society, Ltd., and the Society of the National Shrine of the Bill of Rights at Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site."

-96.237.4.73 (talk) 17:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)