Join us as Kathleen Bachtel, director, speaks on the history of food at Spring Hill, the 1820s farmhouse and grounds located in Massillon. Sample some of the foods!
Join us as Kathleen Bachtel, director of Spring Hill Historic Home, speaks on the history of food at Spring Hill, which is an 1820s farmhouse and grounds located in Massillon, Ohio. The home was inhabited from the 1810s to the 1970s, first by the Rotch family who founded Kendal, a precursor to Massillon, and then by three generations of the Wales family. Both the Rotches and the Wales were strong supporters of the abolitionist movement and even opened their home to freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. Spring Hill began as a wool farm and converted to a dairy business in 1878. It was one of the last expansive farms in Massillon proper before part of the land was auctioned in 1963. Edible examples of some of the foods will be served. Registration is required but the event is free.
