Harding Farm

Built in 1793 by Samuel Kirkland, this house stood on the spot where his friend, the Oneida chief Skenandoa, said that the grass is first green in the spring and the leaves stay on the trees longest in the fall. Kirkland, a missionary and founder of Hamilton College, received 4,000 acres for his contributions during the Revolutionary War. Before reinterment in the college cemetery, Skenandoa was buried in the orchard behind the house next to Kirkland so he could "ride his coattails to heaven."

Kirkland, New York · United States