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Pond Farm (also known as Pond Farm Workshops) was an American artists’ colony that began in the 1940s and, in one form or another, continued until 1985. [1] It is located near the Russian River resort town of Guerneville, California , about 75 mi (120 km) north of San Francisco .
The Pond Farm Workshops, as they became known, ran from 1949 to 1952 and were run by Gordon Herr, Marguerite and Franz Wildenhain, and two other artist colleagues, textile artist Trude Guermonprez (born Jalowetz) and metals artist Victor Ries. Collage artist Jean Varda and sculptor Claire Falkenstein also taught at Pond Farm once per week. [8]
It is part of the Pond-Dakota Mission Park, which also includes the Oak Grove Mission site (1843–1852), a cemetery, and the remains of the Pond family farm and orchards. The site is significant within the history of the Minnesota River valley, the Dakota tribe, and Bloomington. [2] The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Four years later he sold that farm to buy the 193-acre Pond farm. By 1906 the Petersons had added 160 acres to the farm. They grew nine acres of tobacco, 100 acres of corn, 50 acres of oats, and 25 of hay. Over the years the Petersons had ten children. Charles died in 1915 and Katie in 1930, but Petersons stayed on the farm until 1944. [3]
The Roberts Farm Historic and Archeological District (also known as the Theus-Roberts Farm) is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on November 2, 1995) located in Tallahassee, Florida. The district is on Roberts Road, 1-mile (2 km) east of Centerville Road.
The subsequent rise in sea level raised the local water table and in more recent times the pond has been fed by groundwater as well as rainfall. In 1984, the pond had a thick layer of peat, with five strata described by the archaeologists who excavated the pond. The peat in the center of the pond was covered by 6 feet (2 m) of water. [3]
Chapman Pond is the two-acre city park and pond at Merritt and Circle drives in the Myers Park neighborhood. It is named for former Florida Supreme Court Justice Roy H. Chapman, who once lived nearby.
Orchard Pond Plantation was a large forced-labor farm originally growing cotton on 8754 acres, (35 + 1 ⁄ 2 km 2) developed and owned in the 19th century by Richard Keith Call, attorney, planter and future Territorial Governor, in what is now northwestern Leon County, Florida, United States. In 1860 he owned 118 slaves to work the 1300 acres ...