Ayres/Knuth Farm Foundation, Inc.

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For over 25 years the Ayres/Knuth Farm Foundation has restored and preserved a historic farm complex, while providing programing and events. The entire Ayres/Knuth Farm is on the State of New Jersey and National Historic Registers for its its 10 original structures in the compete farmstead.

The Purpose of the Ayres/Knuth Farm Foundation, Inc. is to engage in activities which focus on the protection and enhancement of the historical, agricultural, and environmental aspects of the Township of Denville Ayres/Knuth Farm. To support these endeavors, the Foundation will raise and direct funds towards the preservation of the historical and environmental components of the multi-use open space facility. They will also organize volunteer efforts towards these goals. Ayres/Knuth Farm is at 25 Cooper Road. The Mailing address is P.O. Box 304, Denville, New Jersey. We are on Journey New New Jersey. Many videos are listed on YouTube and are not our account.

The Farm has two men's regulation soccer fields and practice field. These are maintained by the municipality and a professional farmer actively farming which supporting the historic designation . There are woods and wetlands along with archeological area of Native Americans and Industrial ruins including the Billie Ayres Distillery.

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The Ayres/Knuth Farm is located at the juncture of Cooper Road and Route 10, in Denville, New Jersey. Comprised of 51.8 acres, approximately half under cultivation, the farm complex includes the main house and nine outbuildings. The property reaches its highest elevation at the center. The terrain rolls gradually down to farmland at the north and wetlands to the south. Here, along a small stream, are located a stone spring house and the ruins of a nineteenth century dam. On the south side of the stream are the stone foundations of the Ayres’ family distillery. To the west are the remains of a trout pond constructed during the early twentieth century. Hundreds of rounded “pudding” stones dot this uncleared portion of the property, left behind by the terminal moraine of the Wisconsin Glacier which passed through this section of the county.