Fury Brook Farm

Fury Brook Farm, also Bairdlea Farm, is located on King's Highway in the Town of Chester, New York, United States, just north of the hamlet of Sugar Loaf. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 to help protect the land around it from development.[1]

Fury Brook Farm
Farm frontage along King's Highway, 2008
LocationSugar Loaf, NY
Nearest cityMiddletown
Coordinates41°19′33″N 74°16′49″W
Built1731
NRHP reference No.04000995
Added to NRHP2004

It was established in 1731, the first farm on the Wawayanda Path, which King's Highway follows. Several decades later many of the horses used by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War were bred and raised on its pastures.[2]

References
  1. "Chester Hot Topics". The Preservation Collective. 2003. Retrieved December 29, 2008.
  2. "Farm earns historic honor". Times-Herald Record. Ottaway Community Newspapers. September 25, 2004. Retrieved December 29, 2008.


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