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In the mid 1780's, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania began
issuing land grants in our region, most of them in the
Blooming Grove Lord's Valley area. Hemlock Farms, at that
time more heavily wooded with marshy bogs and rocks, was
not attractive to potential farmers. Nonetheless, a series of
twelve grants starting in 1793 brought almost all of the
present Hemlock Farms into private hands. The great mass
of ungranted lands surrounding the community survives
today as state owned forest and hunting preserves.
The beginning of the modern Hemlock Farms was made in
1927 when William Brewster acquired the entire Atkinson
holdings from Harry J. Atkinson. These holdings represented
about two-thirds of Hemlock Farms. The Atkinson holdings
included the entire present golf course area, and much of the
land south of Hemlock Farms Road to Route 739 (except the
Steer Barn region). Brewster, a young man of not quite thirty,
was the son of George Brewster, a highly successful contractor
from Bergen County, New Jersey. The Brewster Construction
Company built the Pike County section of Route 402.
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