130 Bowne Road, Wayside, NJ
Kaplan Farm/Inwood Farm (Also MacIntyre and Frick Farms)
The area was originally 2 farms known as MacIntyre Farm and Frick Farm. In the early 1900's, both properties were purchased and known as Inwood Farm. It was later purchased by the Kaplan Family.
The fields and barns of the Kaplan Farm, which was located between on Bowne Road and extended back to Route 18 along Asbury Avenue in Wayside. The farm existed until about 2000, when it disappeared to make way for houses. The working farm that was built in the early 1900 had cows, horses, pigs, turkeys, goats, and sheep at various times during its existence. Neighbors tell of land that supported orchard and strawberry fields and sheep that supplied wool for blankets. One of the last tracts of farmland in the township, it is now only a memory.
