Reports of the Board of Visitors, Trustees, the Treasurer, and Superintendent of the N. H. Asylum for the Insane: June Session, 18

Excerpt from Reports of the Board of Visitors, Trustees, the Treasurer, and Superintendent of the N. H. Asylum for the Insane: June Session, 1860

The projectors and early managers of the Institu with a wisdom which must ever be commended, took 0 at the very commencement of its existence, to secure, it ample and convenient grounds. A tract of land, bracing about one hundred and twenty-one acres, was chased in 1841, for the sum of It approach square in shape, and is divided into two. Tolerably e portions by a brook running through it south. With the exception of a small po undulating, its surface is a plane, inclining south and south-east. The character Of For the most part it is a light loam, free fro wrought, warm, and well adapted both to grains grasses. In some sections, however, it is quite the rev being heavy, and requiring drainage. The whole of tract, with the exception of a few acres imme the Asylum buildings, is devoted to agricultu and having been greatly improved since its pure n’ow probably One of the most productive’farms of lar size in the State.

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