In the 1860s, William Emerson Baker retired from his sewing machine business with a vast fortune and purchased nearly 800 acres in Needham – the famous Ridge Hill Farms. Widely regarded as America’s first amusement park, Ridge Hill Farms embodied Baker’s extraordinary passion for social and economic reform, experimental agriculture, bad puns and practical jokes. A film by Derick Risner. A Co-Production of the Needham History Center & Museum and The Needham Channel. (Run time, 60 minutes). DVD format.
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Beautiful & Bizarre: William Baker’s Ridge Hill Farms (DVD format)
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In the 1860s, William Emerson Baker retired from his sewing machine business with a vast fortune and purchased nearly 800 acres in Needham – the famous Ridge Hill Farms. Widely regarded as America’s first amusement park, Ridge Hill Farms embodied Baker’s extraordinary passion for social and economic reform, experimental agriculture, bad puns and practical jokes. A film by Derick Risner. A Co-Production of the Needham History Center & Museum and The Needham Channel. (Run time, 60 minutes). DVD format.
