Hale Farm & Village

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The Hale house in 1936.

The Hale Farm & Village is a historical community in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, United States. It is within the boundaries of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, although it belongs to the Western Reserve Historical Society and is run by them as a compatible use site. The property is located on Oak Hill Road.

[edit] Wheatfield

The church that is part of Hale Farm came from Streetsboro, Ohio.

The eastern half of the living museum has a variety of historical buildings, most relocated from elsewhere. This recreated village is called "Wheatfield". The majority of Wheatfield's structures are inhabited by people who present information on their location but acknowledge the modern world. This technique is known as third-person interpretation. First-person interpretation means that the inhabitants of a structure work as actors who play out the livelihood of a certain year and setting. The timeframe reenacted by the first-person interpreters at Wheatfield was 1862 in 2007. Each year, the actors will move forward one year, until they reach 1865, the end of the American Civil War, at which point they will revert to 1861, which was the beginning of the war.