DOVER, N.H. — In 1632, John Tuttle arrived from England to a settlement near the Maine-New Hampshire border, using a small land grant from King Charles I to start a farm.
News articles dating to the 1930s confirm its age, and the Tuttles said they've never been challenged over the distinction. In 1989, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said the nation's oldest farm was the Tuttle Farm, but it made no mention of the Shirley Plantation in Charles City, Va., which was founded in 1613 and was in business in 1638.
Lucy and Will Tuttle pose in a corn field at the family farm in Dover, N.H., last Thursday. Long regarded as the country's oldest family-run farm, the Tuttle property is up for sale ($3.3 million).
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