[2] During his horticultural experiments, Cummins corresponded with other horticulturalists in the area, including Peter Gideon, Jonathan Taylor Grimes, Henry Lyman, William Macintosh, E.R.

[4] The Grill family sold the house and surrounding farmland to the city of Eden Prairie in 1976 for parkland.

[2] The Eden Prairie Historical Society  acquired stewardship of the house itself through a lease agreement in May of 2010.

[5] At 11:38am on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, an extensively modified and privately owned Beechcraft Model 18 aircraft lost power in one of its two engines shortly after takeoff from Flying Cloud and crashed on the front lawn of the farmstead, just a few feet southeast of the front door.

The two occupants aboard were fatally injured in the fiery crash, which also damaged some of the original trees on the property.

[6] No one was at the farmstead at the time of the crash, and the house was not damaged, yet sections of debris landed on the front porch.