The Smith Family Farm

This is an etching of the Smith Family farm in Palmyra, New York.  The Smith Family moved to New York from Vermont in 1816.  By the fall of 1817, the Smith's made an initial payment on the hundred acre piece of "wild and unimproved" piece of land that would become their farm.  Druing the winter of 1817 and 1818, the Smith's cleared some of the land and began to build a log house on the northern edge of the farm.  The log house was completed by the fall of 1818 and the Smith's moved into their own house.  Eventually the Smith's built a frame house in the middle of the farm where they lived from 1825 through 1829.