Donating the Hale Farm

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Donating the Hale Farm
With no other family members to take over the family farm, Clara Belle Ritchie saw the donation of the Hale property as a way to preserve her family's legacy. Jonathan Hale's substantial collection of written records about his life and experiences made his home and story a significant representation of the nineteenth-century Ohio experience.

Photo by Jim Schmidt / Courtesy of the National Park Service.
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