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Oaklawn Farm is a historic property in Wayne, Illinois. The farm was operated by the Dunham family, who successfully bred Percheron horses. The property features the chateauesque Dunham Castle , which was built by Mark Wentworth Dunham in 1880.
Mark W. Dunham was born in Wayne, Illinois on June 22, 1842, the son of Solomon Dunham (1791–1856). [2] The elder Dunham had emigrated from New York State in a covered wagon to settle on 400 acres of land in Illinois, where he strategically built roads, an inn, a general store, and a house in order to prosper from the construction of new railroad lines passing through the area.
Dunham Castle at Oaklawn Farm, Dunham Woods Riding Club, Wayne, Illinois; Dunham House, near Kempton, Indiana; Dunham's Mill, listed on the NRHP in Hunterdon County, New Jersey; Jonathan Singletary Dunham House, Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey; Dunham Tavern, the oldest building in Cleveland, Ohio
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Zachariah DeWitt was born on April 24, 1768, in New Jersey, and by the 1780s, he had resettled in Kentucky along with two brothers. He married Elizabeth Teets (b. 1774) on March 11, 1790. When Ohio became a state in 1803, residents of Kentucky were drawn to its cheap and newly available land.
Gorman Heritage Farm is a working, educational, non-profit farm on 122 acres (49 ha) in Evendale, Ohio, United States. The farm consists of 30 tillable acres (12 ha), a farmyard, gardens, 5 miles (8.0 km) of hiking trails, and a wildflower preserve. The farm raises livestock, grows produce and flowers, and produces biochar.
In August 1972, the deed of Malabar Farm was accepted by the state of Ohio after the Louis Bromfield Malabar Farm Foundation—which had been operating the farm—faced foreclosure. In 1976, the farm became a state park. On April 4, 1993, a fire destroyed the main barn.
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