Daniel Pond Farmhouse

The Daniel Pond Farmhouse, also known as Eggleston Farm, is a limestone-walled home built in Rutland, Wisconsin in the 1840s.

[2] The first permanent settlers in what would become the town of Rutland arrived in the summer of 1842, and staked claims near the Janesville and Madison Road - now US-14.

[3] Pond probably had the 1.5-story section of the house built some time between 1844 and 1850 - probably designed by Sereno W. Graves, who farmed only a mile away and later became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

The walls are coursed small pieces of limestone, with the corner quoins larger blocks of dressed stone.

Also on the farm lived his widowed mother-in-law, Temperance Munger with her son and daughter, and a single man, Stewart Shampmore.

The farm also exemplifies a typical pattern for the area, with its early settlement by Yankees who grew wheat, followed by Scandinavian immigrants in the late 1800s.