Title:
Millionaire Plant's 'summer cottage'
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
Millionaire Morton Plant
Avery Point greenhouses
Branford House
Plant's model farms
Mather farm
Fish farm
Groton-New London Airport
Avery Point greenhouses
Branford House
Plant's model farms
Mather farm
Fish farm
Groton-New London Airport
Object ID:
Kim04-033
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
11/14/1991
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
Millionaire Morton Plant moved into his summer "cottage" at Branford House, in 1904. In addition to his extensive greenhouses he praticed agriculture at the Mather farm and Poquonnock lands purchased from Nathan S. Fish in addition to the Fish farm now referred to as Branford Farms. His model farms included Jersey and Guernsey cows that were milked by electricity in 1911. Work horses and poultry were kept at the old Mather farm. The farms were doomed after their patron died in 1918 but in 1931 the former Fish farm was acquired by the State of Connecticut for Trumbull Flying Field, now the Groton-New London Airport.
People:
Plant, Morton
Fish, Nathan S.
Marquardt
Erney, Clinton
Mather
Fish, Nathan S.
Marquardt
Erney, Clinton
Mather
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