Even before the Nathan Hale Homestead became a historic house museum open to the public, this
picturesque colonial farm was a favorite retreat among brides and grooms. The "birth-place"  of
Connecticut's State Hero, Nathan Hale, the Homestead was restored in 1914 by George Dudley Seymour.
Mr. Seymour encouraged friends and acquaintances to be married at the homestead, and some even
came here for their honeymoons!

While today we can't invite couples to spend the night, we do welcome small wedding parties to use
the rustic grounds. Of particular pastoral beauty, this 1776 mansion house us surrounded by open
fields and woods, the Nathan Hale State Forest.

Some couples have chosen to be married in the Holy Grove, a plantation of sugar maples planted in the
early 19th Century by Nathan Hale's brother, the Rev. David Hale. David held prayer meetings in the grove.
But whether you choose the Holy Groove in front of the house or one of the other areas around the old
farmstead, Hale Homestead makes for a unique setting fo a wedding or other important ceremony.