Long Island Farm - est. 1744

07/24/2024

Historic view of the house and farm!

11/08/2020

Fall colors

04/11/2019

Hosted the Halten Garden Club for a historic home tour, meeting and luncheon today.

10/29/2017

Digging through papers and found this Survey report of the land of Long Island Farm from 1722 for the original owner, Samual Stansbury, who later deeded the land to Isaac Risteau in May of 1764. I love how "Satyr Hill" was originally spelled.

05/19/2017

The history and legacy of Long Island Farm lost its pedestal of preservation today. We mourn the loss of Mrs. Lillian Jenifer, who passed away this morning (5/19/17).

REST IN PEACE: Mrs. Jenifer was instrumental in leading the charge to preserve Cromwell Valley from encroaching suburban development, which culminated in the present day Cromwell Valley Park. She served as vice president of the Friends of Cromwell Valley Park organization.

HISTORY: In 1764, Isaac Risteau bought 21 acres of Long Island from Samuel Stansbury and thus began the saga of the Risteau/Jenifer family’s ownership of Long Island Farm.

Mrs. Lillian Jenifer's family is related to Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer, a Maryland Delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia and a signer of the United States Constitution in 1787. Daniel Jenifer, Jr. inherited Long Island to hold in trust for his son, Thomas Risteau Jenifer.

The Risteau/Jenifer family continued the lime operation and farming in the valley, and continued the established tradition of slavery at this site up through the Civil War. All throughout American history the Jenifer family members were judges and postmasters, Colonials and Lieutenants, doctors and lawyers.

MEMORIAL FUND: The Jenifer Family has asked that donations in lieu of flowers be made to the Lillian Jenifer Memorial Fund, which will go to preserve and maintain "HER" .

DONATION LINK: https://www.gofundme.com/LillianJenifer-MemorialFund

10/19/2016

Release of service of William Dodson from 1865

10/19/2016

Photograph of the house without the 1950-60's addition.

06/21/2016

http://towsonflyer.com/2016/06/20/zoning-prevent-high-density-development-proposed-cromwell-bridge-corridor/. Thanks, David Marks!

Baltimore County Councilman David Marks, concerned about a potential loss of trees, will recommend that the zoning along a major section of the Cromwell Bridge Road corridor be reduced to the lowest point allowed for development. The 167-acre area stretches from Goucher Boulevard across the southern...

06/04/2016

http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=254

One of the owners of Historic Long Island Farm is a direct descendant of the Potthast Bros. furniture company owner. These "True Antiques of Tomorrow" look amazing and at home in the 1744 main house.

Biography of William A. Potthast by Randall Donaldson

03/07/2016

This 1773 hand-written letter from George Washington is now in the Maryland State Archives, but was found in a wooden crate at the farm.

03/07/2016

The building on the left no longer exists, but the foundation is still there. How much fun Judge Jenifer is having with his mule team!

10/28/2015

Long Island Farm was recently admitted to the National Underground Railroad "Network to Freedom Trail". Thanks to Teri Rising, from Baltimore County's Department of Planning - Historic Preservation - for her hard work making this happen.