This farmhouse along the Connecticut River was home to a family that was one of the first to settle in Hadley. One of the Phelps family served and was killed in action during the French and Indian War. The family owned slaves and one of the slaves, Cesar Phelps, joined the Revolutionary War and fought at Fort Ticonderoga.
The house is currently a museum open seasonally to the public starting in May, known as the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum at Forty Acres. The Museum acknowledges on its website the history of slavery and displacement of native tribes that used to live on the land and features that as part of the stories of the white families who lived there.
