FREE ACRES ASSOCIATION LEASES,, 1910-1991

Summary: Contains court actions to recover delinquent taxes, divorce agreements, indentures, index cards noting the various leaseholders of one property, leases, lists of leaseholders, powers of attorney, releases, site drawings, and wills.

In the Free Acres Association folder are the 1910 Deed of Gift from Bolton Hall and Susie Scott Hall to the Free Acres Association and the 1980 transfer of land from Camp Elsinore to Free Acres.

Of particular interest are the 1917 lease of illustrator Will Crawford, early settler and well-remembered member of the community, signed by Bolton Hall, for the Free Acres Board of Trustees, and witnessed by Free Acreites William Armbruster and Amy Mali Hicks (who was the first Free Acres Town Clerk) and the leases of Town Clerks Katharine Clay, Geraldine Runfeldt, and Fritz Schade, oral history interviewee Catherine Blohm, actor Victor Kilian, artist Charles Lester, and the 1911 leases of Walter B. Danforth, A. B. Firth, and Margaret M. P. Louchard, which Bolton Hall also signed.