Name Caroline Foster | ||
Died July 26, 1979, Morristown, New Jersey, United States | ||
Caroline Rose Foster (6 April 1877 – 26 July 1979) was an American farmer, the creator of Fosterfields, a working historical farm in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. In 2009 Foster was among 100 women honored by the National Women's History Project as "women taking the lead to save our planet".
Life
Caroline Rose Foster was the daughter of Charles Grant Foster (1843-1927) and Emma Louise Thompson. In 1881 her father bought a Morris County farm from General Joseph Warren Revere, a grandson of Paul Revere. He renamed it Fosterfields, and from 1881 to 1915 developed it as a farm breeding Jersey cattle. In 1927 Caroline Foster inherited the farm, and preserved it as a working farm using the farm practices of her childhood. In 1974 she arranged to bequeath it to the Morris County Park Commission to be preserved as a "living historical farm", the first in New Jersey. She died aged 102 in 1979.