Welcome to Huntoon Farm 150 years of farming and family history The main farm "land and building supplies"was bought by Harvey Huntoon in December of 1856. He purchased surrounding small farms and land from other farms, segmented from the building of the railroad, to add to his hillside farm. He and his wife Abbey had four children: Will, John, Emma and Ada. In 1903, at Harvey's death, William Huntoon took over the farm. He married Eva Perkins, daughter of Dexter Perkins; a man with a unique history of his own--Dexter was sold in Danbury as a young ward of the town bringing a very high price and by age 21, he had accumulated enough money to secure his own farm. Upon his death he was one of the wealthiest men in town due to the amount of land he had acquired. His humble beginnings were not something Dexter wished to discuss. Eva and Will had one son Willard. In 1940, Will added the Gould pasture to the farm. Total acreage 362. Willard left school at 14 years old to take over the farm when his father died. He and his mother continued to work the farm, now a dairy farm with milk being shipped by train to Hood's in Boston. Eva died in 1950. Willard married Marjorie Currier and they had two children, Alan and Donna. During the 50's, the dairy farm was expanded; tractors replaced horses and mechanization of farm rapidly increased. Willard always missed the days of the horses. In 1988, Donna married Phil Sprague and they, together with their son Dustin are keepers of the family farm. Their goal is to preserve the family farm and protect it from development and subdivision. They believe these rural treasures are fast disappearing. Their wish is to share a real farm with those that no longer have access to them and educate the public that open farm land and green forests are important in today's world.