Hunt-Forman Farm

Located just south of the crossroads village of Red Lion in Warren County, Ohio, this 102-acre farm is split by State Route 741. Aaron Hunt settled the land in 1798, and his son John Hunt, a boatman and state legislator, is presumed to have funded the brick farmhouse and barns built around 1840-1850. John Forman bought the farm in 1865, and the Forman family has owned it since. The three-bay, two-story brick house has a bracketed cornice, with later weatherboard additions at the rear. Two post-and-beam barns with hand-hewn maple timbers and pegged joints stand nearby, along with a smokehouse, milk house, silo and other farm structures. Fields, a hedgerow, Snake Creek and a stock tunnel under the highway remain part of the layout. The farm was listed for its link to Poland China hog breeding in the Miami Valley and for its well-preserved farmhouse, barns and rural setting, and it was named an Ohio Outstanding Century Farm in 2003.