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St. Charles (Illinois) Review, Saturday, 8 June 1878
Batavia Department
Headline: Lily Lake and Other Creameries
For an appearance of solid worth, and industrial comfort, as well as for beauty of location, no farm and home in Campton, surpasses that of Mr. R.M. Garfield. Seen from the north-east, near sunset, to day, it is a charming picture of beauty, peace and prosperity. The tall old brick house, (which however looks as if it were built yesterday,) almost burried in the shrubbery of a yard not quite deep enough to hide it, the broad orchards on the left, the pleasent roads leading up to it through fertile fields, and open groves which the orioles love to haunt, and the darkening woods in the background, might fulfill a poet's or a painter's most extravagant ideal of rural beauty. Beyond the grove and out of sight of the house, is a village of the dead, in a spot of great natural beauty. This farm contains 400 acres, a part of Culverson's claim in 1835. Eighty acres are in corn, and sixty in oats, this season. The milk of thirty-five cows is taken from here to Potter's cheese factory, in LaFox. Twenty-six fine calves were raised this year. Ten horses, and a number of hogs, complete the stock. A garden of small fruit is opposite the house and everything seems cosy, convenient and comfortable. Hospitality, is the marked characteristic of the gentlemanly owner.
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