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The farm is located near the Mount Hope Bridge in Bristol, Rhode Island, and the grounds have been farmed since the 1680s. The present 211 acres (85 ha) are a remnant of a much larger property that included Mount Hope, the traditional seat of the Wampanoag people. The main house on the farm was built in several stages, the earliest portion ...
St Nicholas Market is a market in Corn Street, Bristol, England in The Exchange in the Bristol City Centre. [1] It is also home to the Bristol Farmers' Market, [ 2 ] the Nails Market, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the Slow Food Market, [ 5 ] all of which are located in front of the Exchange.
In 1680 all 7000 acres of the Mt. Hope Lands were bought by four Boston investors. It became the Town of Bristol, a part of Plymouth Colony. One of the investors, Nathaniel Byfield, claimed the 550 acres of Mt. Hope for his own farm. [6] He sold the farm in 1702 to his son-in-law and, in 1744, Byfield's granddaughter, Elizabeth Royall ...
Bristol Farms is an upscale grocery store chain in California, United States. Founded in Los Angeles County , Bristol Farms operates 19 stores: 13 as Bristol Farms locations and 6 branded as Lazy Acres Markets throughout Southern California .
The town of Bristol, Vermont, is located on the west side of Vermont's Green Mountains. It was settled in the 1780s, and was a basically agricultural community until the American Civil War. Its town center provided services to farmers in outlying areas, including a market for their goods and sawmills and gristmills for processing their lumber ...
The farm later became part of the Colt Estate. In 1965 the State of Rhode Island purchased the Colt Estate for use as a state park, and the Bristol Historical Society petitioned the state for permission to preserve the farm house on the property as a museum. In 1968 the Bristol Historical Society signed a lease and constructed various outbuildings.
Poppasquash Farms Historic District is a historic district in Bristol, Rhode Island.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]The district is located off Route 114, and encompasses most of Colt State Park and about 50 acres (20 ha) of adjacent private lands on the northern half of Poppasquash Neck.
The Exchange is a Grade I listed building built in 1741–43 by John Wood the Elder, on Corn Street, near the junction with Broad Street in Bristol, England. It was previously used as a corn and general trade exchange but is now used as offices and it also accommodates St Nicholas Market.