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Joel Hall Homestead Cut Limestone
| Historic Site #: | 07-016 (Exists) Type: D2,D3 | Town: | Marion | ||
| Site Name: | Joel Hall Homestead Cut Limestone | GPS Coordinates: | 43.1733, -77.248062 | ||
| Address: | 4682 Hall Center Rd. | ||||
| Description: | |||||
| The Joel Hall homestead was built from limestone quarried on his farm around 1829. The house was completed in 1830. The family originally built a log cabin when they arrived in Wayne County in 1807. The farm contained a quarry referred to as Limestone Island that has since flooded. | |||||
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| Hall Family home |
| Historic narrative: | |||||
The earliest Hall to arrive in this area was Joel Hall, a lad of about twenty-one and his wife Anna Peck who was twenty. They came by ox team from Cheshire, Connecticut, purchasing 400 acres in 1806. The first payment on the farm was $20 received as a bounty for the scalp of a wolf killed on the farm. A log cabin was originally located not far from the stone house site. in 1807 their child, Almira, was born and every two years after came Joseph, Lydia, Amasa, Orin, Levi, Enos, Joel Jr, Warren and Ann. | |||||