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== Malabar Farm Events ==
== Malabar Farm Events ==
===== Maple Sugaring Festival =====
===== Maple Sugaring Festival =====
A festival dedicated to Early Ohio's winter tradition of making maple syrup. During the sugaring off days, at the farm, learn about the process of harvesting sap from trees, boiling the liquid down to syrup, making candies, sugar, and other sweet treats. There are many activities and demonstrations available with free admission.<ref>http://www.roadtripsforfamilies.com/2010/02/sugaring-off-at-the-sugar-shack-maple-syrup-festivals/</ref>
A festival dedicated to early Ohio's winter tradition of making maple syrup. During the sugaring off days, at the farm, learn about the process of harvesting sap from trees, boiling the liquid down to syrup, making candies, sugar, and other sweet treats. There are many activities and demonstrations available with free admission.<ref>http://www.roadtripsforfamilies.com/2010/02/sugaring-off-at-the-sugar-shack-maple-syrup-festivals/</ref>

===== Heritage Days =====
===== Heritage Days =====
One of the state's largest outdoor craft shows. The festival includes various living history reenactments, including the civil war era & buck-skinners. Watch the Richland County Threshers display their historic steam-powered machinery.<ref>http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/news/sep01/0910malabarheritage/tabid/12374/Default.aspx</ref>
One of the state's largest outdoor craft shows. The festival includes various living history reenactments, including the civil war era & buck-skinners. Watch the Richland County Threshers display their historic steam-powered machinery.<ref>http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/news/sep01/0910malabarheritage/tabid/12374/Default.aspx</ref>

Revision as of 15:48, 13 August 2010

Malabar Farm
Horses at the Maple Sugar Festival in 2007.
Malabar Farm State Park is located in Ohio
Malabar Farm State Park
LocationPleasant Valley Road, Lucas, Ohio
Built1939
ArchitectLouis Bromfield
Architectural styleState Park
NRHP reference No.73001520 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 11, 1973

Malabar Farm State Park is a state park in Richland County, Ohio, United States, located near Lucas and the Mohican State Park.

Nestled in the hills of Pleasant Valley, Malabar Farm was built in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield and was his home until his death in 1956. On May 21, 1945, Bromfield hosted Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall's wedding and honeymoon at Malabar Farm.

Points of interest Within the Park

Malabar Farm Inn

Malabar Farm Inn, is a historic Stagecoach Inn, built in 1820. Today, the two-story brick building has been restored as a restaurant, offering fine home-cooked dining. Just to the East of the inn, lies Malabar Spring. Seasonally, visitors can purchase fresh, local produce; which is cooled by flowing spring water. Louis Bromfield, himself, designed the spring-cooled roadside stand, in 1954.[2]

Pugh Cabin

This authentic, rustic log-cabin style home was built in the 1940's by Bromfield's neighbor, Joe Pugh. [3]More recently, the cabin was used to film a few opening scenes in the movie The Shawshank Redemption.

The Ceely Rose House

The miller's house, mentioned in the collection of ghost stories, in Pleasant Valley. Home to the young, mentally challenged girl, Ceely Rose, who was convicted of murdering her family by mixing arsenic into their food.[4] The Ceely Rose Play, set in the fateful year of 1896, is preformed each October, in the park's timber frame barn.

Malabar Farm Events

Maple Sugaring Festival

A festival dedicated to early Ohio's winter tradition of making maple syrup. During the sugaring off days, at the farm, learn about the process of harvesting sap from trees, boiling the liquid down to syrup, making candies, sugar, and other sweet treats. There are many activities and demonstrations available with free admission.[5]

Heritage Days

One of the state's largest outdoor craft shows. The festival includes various living history reenactments, including the civil war era & buck-skinners. Watch the Richland County Threshers display their historic steam-powered machinery.[6]

Wagon Tours

Tours run seasonally

Hostelling International USA operates a 21 bed youth hostel in the farmhouse.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/762/Default.aspx
  3. ^ http://www.bookthink.com/0078/78brom2.htm
  4. ^ http://sharonherald.com/archive/x1448560329
  5. ^ http://www.roadtripsforfamilies.com/2010/02/sugaring-off-at-the-sugar-shack-maple-syrup-festivals/
  6. ^ http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/news/sep01/0910malabarheritage/tabid/12374/Default.aspx
  7. ^ http://www.hiusa.org/hostels/usa_hostels/ohio/lucas/60081
The Main Dairy Barn and Petting Farm.