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Bellamy-Ferriday Garden

North Bethlehem, Connecticut
United States

The Bellamy-Ferriday estate combines the best of a Connecticut landscape with a delightful semiformal garden. The mansion and numerous farm buildings (open to the public) sit serenely in their green and rolling landscape of gently sloping fields divided by stone walls, flowering trees, and quiet woods. The nine- acre estate is now contiguous to a much larger preserved forest area for hiking. The original house was built in 1744 by Joseph Bellamy, the local pastor and director of the first divinity school in America. (He was also known as

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