Tranquility Farms cache is part of The Rutherfurd - Stuyvesant Geocache Series which give an in depth history of this important and distinguished american family and the gilded age in New Jersey.
These two nearby locations, The Stuyvesant Mansion and Rutherfurd Mansion were located within Tranquility Farms massive 5000 acre estate which was divided by the construction on interstate 80. Those individual titled cache pages will give a complete history.
Tranquility Farm
In 1902 when Winthrop Rutherfurd decided to build a country home for his new bride, Alice Morton, Allamuchy, New Jersey was a natural choice. Winthrop’s father originally owned the nearby, 460-acre Tranquility Farms, which had been in the family since the mid-1700’s.
Winthrop’s older brother Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, twenty years his senior (who later changed his name to Rutherfurd Stuyvesant to meet the terms of inheritance for the Stuyvesant fortune), increased his father’s original land holdings in the 1890’s. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant made successive purchases of farms and forests, expanding upon his father’s original agrarian ideals. When he was through, Tranquility Farms encompassed 5000 acres and consisted of 20 farms and the fenced 1000-acre Deer Park that was used as a private hunting preserve stocked with deer, elk and English pheasant. On the farms, there were herds of Dorset sheep and Jersey, Guernsey and Holstein cows. Stuyvesant also tripled the size the original house to create Stuyvesant Mansion (which burned in 1959). The estate became a fall retreat for New York Gilded Age Society
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