In June 1882, artist J. Alden Weir arrived in Branchville, Connecticut, to explore the rural farm atop Nod Hill, and during his short first visit he painted Spring Landscape, Branchville, beginning an artistic legacy that continued for generations. Over the next forty years, Weir and his artist friends painted this landscape endlessly. After Weir, his daughter, painter Dorothy Weir, and her husband, sculptor Mahonri Young, continued to create here during the decades surrounding World War II. In 1957, Sperry and Doris Andrews moved into the farmhouse and over several decades painted thousands of works at the farm. Today, Weir Farm National Historic Site is the country's only National Park Service site dedicated to American painting and one of the finest remaining landscapes of American art.