The land was first granted in 1648 to George Lawton, and was owned by six generations of the family.

It was acquired in 1832 by Peleg Almy, whose family owned it until 1938, when it was sold to the Halls.

The farmhouse is one of the oldest in the area, with its northern section estimated to have been built about 1700, based on stylistic resemblance to the Quaker Meetinghouse (c. 1699) and a local schoolhouse (c.

[2] The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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