SCHLATTER FAMILY WILDLIFE PRESERVE. 27 acres, donated in 1992
and 2003 by Schlatter offspring Ralph, Robert, Hilda [Bowe] and Vera
[MacKeen].
Near the Bushleys was the Schlatters’ farm on West District Road. Their
original gift was 18.8 acres of field and woodland, and this generous
family has recently added more. The Schlatters bought the farm at 78
West District Road in the 1920s from a Miss May Saunders, and named it
“Shady Bend” for its old maples. The Hartford family summered in the
initially decrepit, unheated and unelectrified house. Fred and Louise
Schlatter kept an orchard and truck garden, mainly for family and friends.
Daughter Hilda Schlatter Bowe says they have donated the property to the
Land Trust because of their parents’ love of farming, and to keep it from
“just becoming housing”. It will remain as meadow and a managed
woodland nature preserve.
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