860.674.8545
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Board/Staff
    • Become a Member
    • In the Press
    • Newsletters
  • Events
    • Photo Contest
    • Video Maker's Contest
  • Properties & Hikes
    • Properties >
      • Canal Aqueduct
      • Carey Pasture
      • Cowles Parcel
      • Schlatter Family Wildlife Preserve
      • West District
    • Hikes >
      • Will Warren's Den
      • Nancy Conklin Trail
      • Canal Aqueduct and Henry Mason Trail
      • Mountain Spring Nature Trail
      • Douglas Mount Fishing Pier
    • New Acquisitions >
      • Clatter Valley Road Parcel
      • Pinnacle Ridge
  • Stewardship
    • Caring for the Land
    • Stewards Report
    • Adopt-A-Parcel
  • Store
  • Development Assistant

SCHLATTER WILDLIFE PRESERVE and SCHLATTER PARCEL

These 27 acres of woodland and meadow were donated in 1992 and 2003 by Schlatter offspring Ralph, Robert, Hilda [Bowe] and Vera [MacKeen].

Located on West District Road, near West District School, these properties were once one of the many farms established west of the Farmington River. The original gift was 18.8 acres of mature woodland wich is now a preserved sanctuary for wildlife with limited human encroachment. It is home to numerous mammals and and raptors which hunt in the adjacent meadow and along the Farmington River nearby. The second property, a beautiful 8.2 acre meadow abutting the woodland, was donated in 2003.

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 here, where 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 sanctuary preserved by the Farmington Land Trust.
Picture
Join others who take advantage of this opportunity!  Click on the amazon smile logo to designate the FLT as your charity of choice.  Amazon.com will then donate one-half percent, 0.5%, of each purchase to the FLT when you shop at https://smile.amazon.com .
Combined, these small but regular contributions from Amazon.com are a significant source of revenue to help SAVE THE LAND.


Get Started with the Farmington Land Trust:

Become a Member
Donate to the Landmark Fund
Join the Newsletter
                       Farmington Land Trust, Inc.           128 Garden Street #C          Farmington, CT 06032          860.674.8545