Talk:Bara-Hack, Connecticut
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Bara-Hack is not a village at all, but the farm and mill site of Obadiah Higginbotham and family. The Randalls appear to have been well-to-do neighbors who may have owned the land originally and sold the site to the Higginbothams. The Welsh origin of Obadiah Higginbotham has never been verified, but a frequently repeated legend is that he was a British soldier stationed in Rhode Island who deserted to marry a girl he met in Cranston, RI. There is no explanation of the origin of the name Bara-Hack; it may be a 20th century invention.
The current owner believes Odell Shepard may have started the myth that it was haunted and first referred to it as the Lost Village in The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, 1927 (Doris B. Townshend, The Lost Village of the Higginbothams, New York: Vantage Press, 1991). Most visitors, including Mrs. Townshend, report a lack of unusual or "paranormal" activity at the site. Abandoned homesteads such as the Higginbotham farm are common in the woods of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The site includes two house foundations (one on each side of the brook), a barn foundation, numerous stone walls, pillars and other worked stone, a well, the nearly undetectable foundation of a very small mill on the brook, and a simple face inscribed in a boulder that is believed to have been carved within the past 50 years. The mill was a woodworking shop with a water-powered lathe where Obadiah Higginbotham made spoked furniture. An example of his work is a spinning wheel exhibited at Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts. A cemetery about a half-mile east of the site features at least a dozen headstones of the Higginbothams and their neighbors. Ancient elms hang over the stone walls of the cemetery, witness to the passing of a way of life.KentSpott (talk) 07:28, 12 December 2015 (UTC)Kent Spottswood, folklorist, author of Stone Wings (http://stonewings.wordpress.com/).
Bara Hack additions[edit]
Hello, I would like to add to the article which you have started, i am new to this so I apologize if I have gone about it in the wrong manner, I belong to the family that built the site and have a great deal of information concerning it HIG-LES (talk) 02:28, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- I merged your article Bara Hack: The Lost Village of the Higinbothams to here. Yilloslime TC 04:09, 7 April 2018 (UTC)