https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/f536583a9ec222dea1b92778084131ab.png 8026d2164e0d4e2ed4876eb15e9d8551 https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/e0083f08bb56aed33585af20ff757f55.jpg 80f293450e979b77564d687f9f369da4 https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/79f060cab3fa56c5eccfdcb0c9064d97.jpg 80f293450e979b77564d687f9f369da4 Reconstruction Advisers Broadlands Farm Authors Alice Watterson, John McCaffery, Kieran Baxter, Tone Julskjaer, Alan Miller Date Represented 1920s How Broadlands Farm environment, archive and concept created by Alice Watterson, Kieran Baxter and Tone Julskjaer, interactive programming by Open Virtual Worlds. Work completed on behalf of RGA Incorporated. Evidence The Cecil County School of Technology stands on lands which were once part of Broadlands Farm. Established by Hoagland Gates in the late 1920’s, Broadlands was a “gentleman’s” farm that specialized in the breeding and improvement of Jersey dairy cows. Although much of the farm has been redeveloped, the hay barn and other structures have been retained and now house the Cecil County Farm Museum. Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://player.vimeo.com/video/1105488794 Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. License A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource. In Copyright (InC) Title A name given to the resource Broadlands Farm Type The nature or genre of the resource Reconstruction Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,39.6484351,-75.8079019; Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1515 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived reconstructions Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Subject The topic of the resource Culture Description An account of the resource This site represents the architectural core of what was once a bustling early twentieth-century “gentleman’s” farm complex. The farmstead, as it appears today, was laid out in a courtyard plan by Hoagland Gates around 1929. Architecturally, Broadlands illustrates the importance of dairying and tenant farming in early-twentieth-century Cecil County. Despite the recent loss of many of the surrounding farm fields, the machine shed with double corn crib and the three tenant houses represent a transition from tobacco to grains, and the subsequent increase in and continued importance of farm tenancy from the mid-nineteenth through the twentieth century in the county. The dairy barn with attached barnyard and silo, including the extant dairy equipment on the first story of the barn, exemplifies the increased importance of the dairy industry to Cecil County agriculture in the early twentieth century. Together, the buildings show a symbiotic relationship between dairying and grain production, in that the farm was designed to continue both practices. Broadlands farm