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19th Century Farm Life in the Bristol Valley

  • United Church of Bristol 7177 County Road 2 Bloomfield NY 14469 USA (map)

How Bristol’s first farming families pooled their labor and other resources to establish the area’s earliest farms and businesses — and how that work, cemented by the bonds of family and church, formed a community. SUNY Geneseo student researchers reveal findings from their past year’s efforts to piece together the story of the earliest European-American farms here and their research to map the locations of the region’s oldest surviving barns. Read more about it here.