Prosser Public Library in Bloomfield and the Wintonbury Historical Society present The History of Auerfarm.  Bloomfield was an agricultural community for its first 300 years.  The town of Bloomfield was only about 75 years old when a man named Perkins farmed about 250 acres on the hillside south of Simsbury Road opposite the Southwest District School just west of Burr Road.

Before the end of World War I that property had been transformed into what a Hartford newspaper called a “Model Dairy Plant, a Showplace of Dairy Farms in the State, populated with cows that produced about 700 quarts of milk each day.”   Although the number of animals has decreased significantly, it is still a dairy farm today

Among the succession of owners since that time was the Auerbach family, heirs of whom gave the remaining 75 acres to the Connecticut 4H development fund in May 1977. Today generations of children know the property as the 4H Auerfarm, a magnificent working farm and educational center.  

Wintonbury Historical Society Historian Frederick A. Hesketh will be at Prosser Public Library on November 12 to discuss the history of the property, its owners, and the programs carried out there to introduce generations of Bloomfield and Hartford area children to farm life.

The library and the Wintonbury Historical Society are co-sponsoring tonight’s event.
Registration is appreciated, online at www.prosserlibrary.info or by calling 860-243-9721.