While the East Hampton Historical Society preserves the rich past of the area, it also oversees five museums,…More national landmark historical sites, collections and workshop facilities. Its headquarters are in the Osborn-Jackson House—one of the museums it oversees—on Main Street in East Hampton Village. It also maintains the nearby Mulford Farm and Barn, the Town House, the Clinton Academy, and the East Hampton Town Marine Museum in Amagansett.</p> <p> </p>

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Mulford Farm is considered one of the country's most significant…More intact English Colonial farmsteads. Named for the family that owned it for most of its existence, the saltbox house was built in 1680 and hasn't been changed much since 1750.</p> <p>The farm is set up as if it were about 1790. There is a smokehouse and Rachel's Garden, named for Rachel Mulford, who lived there.</p> <p>The Mulford Barn, also on the property, was built in 1721 and has remained mostly intact. In 1990,  the State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation deemed it the second most important 18th-century barn in the state.</p>