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This oblique aerial photograph of Broadlands Farm taken during the 1970’s. Although the surrounding farmland began to be rented to other farmers as early as the late 1950’s, Hoagland Gates’ widow Margaret continued, with the help of her daughters and…

Ultimately three generations of the Gates family were involved tending the herd at Broadlands Farm. This photograph shows three year old Phyillis Copley, Hoagland Gates’ granddaughter, stroking the muzzle of a champion cow at a Jersey cattle show in…

In 1928, Hoagland Gates formalized his cattle breeding and sales activities in the form of a company named Broadlands Jerseys, Incorporated. This was one year before he actually purchased the first parcel of the land that would become Broadlands…

Broadlands bred Jersey cattle were among the best available in the United States and were highly prized by dairies and other breeders. Hoagland Gates shipped his cows to shows and exhibitions all across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West.

This following the death of Hoagland Gates in 1943, his family returned to live Broadlands full time. This aerial photograph of the farmstead appears to have been taken in the late 1940s. It is the earliest image which conveys the full layout of the…

Dated July 17, 1897, this photograph shows an almost five year old Hoagland Gates summering at Shelter Island, New York. While perusing the morning’s paper, young Hoagland is seated on the front lawn in what appears to be a mid-18th century Hudson…

Broadlands remained an active center for Maryland’s dairy community even after Hoagland Gates’ death. In this newspaper photograph, dairymen and 4H members attend Maryland Jersey Cattle Club’s dairy judging school held in front of the milk room and…

In 1943, Anne Gates married Lieutenant Harold Eugene Copley of San Antonio Texas. At the time of their marriage, Harold Copley was serving as an instructor at the Army Air Forces Navigation School in Hondo Texas. Although the couple initially settled…

Photograph of Elizabeth Gates standing with the family dog, Bruehl, in front of a 1942 Mercury Eight Coupe Convertible and the house she shared with her mother at Broadlands..

This image reportedly shows the first bull to arrive at Broadlands farm. The very early date of the photograph is confirmed by the fact that is depicts both the new buildings of Gates’ Broadands complex on the left and the old Bowen House, on the…