Benton Beach Corporation

The rules and regulations for using Benton Beach have been updated for 2019.

The April 2019 issue of the Benton Beach Beacon has been published and mailed. You can always view the archive of all newsletters from the “Newsletters” page.

Please remember to notify one of the the Benton Beach Corporation officers if your address has changed to ensure that the newsletter and other mailings reach you.

The meeting minutes from the February 12, 2018 Board of Directors meeting have been posted.

The December 2017 issue of the Benton Beach Beacon has been published and mailed. You can always view the archive of all newsletters from the “Newsletters” page.

Please remember to notify one of the the Benton Beach Corporation officers if your address has changed to ensure that the newsletter and other mailings reach you.

The June 2017 issue of the Benton Beach Beacon has been published and mailed. You can always view the archive of all newsletters from the “Newsletters” page.

Please remember to notify one of the the Benton Beach Corporation officers if your address has changed to ensure that the newsletter and other mailings reach you.

2016 BBC Rules & Regs

Benton Barn, Sachem’s Head, Guilford, CT, as photographed on 35mm Kodachrome slide film by Elton L. Helander, February 1947.

Benton Barn was built circa 1850 for John Benton. From 1859–1867, the barn was owned by H. Lee Scranton, whose farm supplied all the dairy products that graced the tables of the celebrated Sachem’s Head Hotel.

In 1869, Dan L. Benton, Jr. acquired the farm and gifted it to his son, L. Herbert Benton in 1888. The farm was later operated by Herbert’s son, Eliot H. Benton, and his grandson, H. Milton Benton. After Milton’s death in 2006, the barn lot was sold. In 2009, Jonathan Wuerth dismantled the high hay barn section for re-erection (5000 Durham Road, North Guilford).

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Benton Barn, Sachem’s Head, Guilford, CT, as photographed on 35mm Kodachrome slide film by J. Perry Wilson in May 1944. Wilson (1889–1976) was a pre-eminent American painter of murals and used this image as a backdrop for a diorama that can still be seen in the Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT.

Benton Barn was built circa 1850 for John Benton. From 1859–1867, the barn was owned by H. Lee Scranton, whose farm supplied all the dairy products that graced the tables of the celebrated Sachem’s Head Hotel.

In 1869, Dan L. Benton, Jr. acquired the farm and gifted it to his son, L. Herbert Benton in 1888. The farm was later operated by Herbert’s son, Eliot H. Benton, and his grandson, H. Milton Benton. After Milton’s death in 2006, the barn lot was sold. In 2009, Jonathan Wuerth dismantled the high hay barn section for re-erection (5000 Durham Road, North Guilford).

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Women to watch: Amber Lambke, Maine Grains (Mainebiz, 8/11/2014)

“Amber Lambke smiles like a proud parent at the Osttiroler Getreidemühlen Green grain mill that occupies most of the second floor of the Somerset Grist Mill in downtown Skowhegan, where her company, Maine Grains, stone grinds organic wheat and oats to sell throughout the Northeast.”

Thanks to Ken Spalding for sharing the article!