Person talk:Hendrik Kooistra (24)

[2 July 2013]

[1 July 2013]

http://www.blackstonedaily.com/whitin_castlehill5.htm

Henry A. Kooistra, who had been president of the Whitin Foremen's Club, was born at Castle Hill.His grandfather was one of the originals who had come from Holland in 1886 to help in the early growth and development of milk cattle and the dairy business at Castle Hill Farm. Rumor was that Castle Hill Farm was bought from Indians for two kegs of whiskey. Not so, but it was a good legend at that. The farm tract was comprised of several parcels of land that were different forms. But there was one "Little Island" of land that was in the middle of a big field that John C. Whitin could not buy out after he had established the farm. He eventually combined the different areas of the small separate farms into the wide open expanse of farmland that made up Castle Hill Farm.--henk 15:06, 1 July 2013 (EDT)--henk 02:50, 2 July 2013 (EDT)