South Farms Inn and Litchfield Springs Co. correspondence
00-2013-129-0
Scope and Contents
Four letters (2013-129-0) concerning the hotel and business at the South Farms Inn property in Morris, Conn. Originally a boarding house owned by Horatio Benton, it was known as the South Farms Inn in 1898 and into the early 1900s. Owned by the Litchfield Springs Co. of New York for a few years starting in 1901, it was hailed as a health resort with medicinal mineral springs. Some of the spring waters were bottled and sold. Plans to develop the resort into another Saratoga Springs type resort never materialized; liens and attachments were placed on the property and after various mortgages, it was sold to the White Memorial Foundation in 1913.
Dates
- created: 1904
- Other: Date acquired: 05/10/2015
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Extent
4.00 items
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquisition
Adam Langlands
Method of Acquisition
Museum purchase
Existence and Location of Originals
http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org
- Title
- South Farms Inn and Litchfield Springs Co. correspondence
- Author
- Lee S. Cook
- Date
- 03/01/2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Litchfield Historical Society Repository
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