Perched on a drumlin, carved by ancient glaciers, Lathrop Farmstead hosts pockets of prime agricultural soils and dense woodlands. It is bounded by numerous stonewalled paddocks, hand built over three centuries ago by farmers clearing fieldstones to make way for planting and pasturelands.

Our farm and family homestead was first acquired in 1817 by Charles Lathrop and deeded to his son Andrew. The property has since sustained 7 generations of Lathrops. Once known for its potatoes, Persian melons, apples, pears, and hand churned butter, farming operations dwindled after the death of the family patriarch, Philip, in 1936.

With great resolve, Philip’s wife Ella and daughter Bertha continued to manage the property and keep it in the family, later selling it to my Granddaddy, Leonard Lathrop in 1967. All the dilapidated barns and outbuildings were razed, leaving only the family homestead where he lived out his remaining years with his wife Mary as a gentleman farmer.