A 100-acre farm was purchased for $4500 on July 3, 1942.
Through the years, additional farms have been purchased to increase the size of the park to the current 284 km2.
They purchased a small farm just outside the town and settled there.
In 1830, the college purchased a farm where students could work several hours a day to earn tuition money.
In 1914 he purchased a farm but found he didn't like the work.
At the age of three the entire family moved to Ballyhale where they purchased a farm.
It took years, but eventually they raised enough to purchase an old farm that had recently gone into foreclosure.
In 1951, the college purchased a nearby farm, which was converted into the first campus.
A few years later he purchased a large farm on the present site of College Hill.
More land was also purchased in 1955, to provide a farm to feed the novices.
