Quarry Farm is located on East Hill overlooking Elmira, New York, and the Chemung River Valley.

It remained in the Langdon family until 1982, when it was donated to Elmira College as part of the founding of the Center For Mark Twain Studies.

[3] All three of the Clemens' daughters would be born at Quarry Farm,[4] and during the three decades the family regularly summered there, Twain composed many of his books and other literature, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

[6] As part of the stipulation of the gift, Quarry Farm is not open to the public, but is reserved exclusively for the use of scholars researching and writing about Twain and his circle.

At least 10–15 of these Quarry Farm Fellows spend anywhere from a week to a month living in the house, surrounded by an extensive library of Twain-related materials, with access to the Mark Twain Archive at Elmira College, and assisted by the Center For Mark Twain Studies, which employs a full-time archivist and resident scholar.