Finding a Home: Prospect Hill Farm

To spur the community college movement, the state of Maryland offered matching funds to institutions to build campuses. In 1962, the Harford County Board of Education bought Prospect Hill Farm.

Prospect Hill Farm was a former thoroughbred race horse breeding and training operation.  The farmhouse – today called Hays-Heighe House, and hosting a museum of local history and culture – dates from 1808, and was built for the Hays family, a prominent family in early county history.

To facilitate a quick move to the new campus, the college retained and reused a number of buildings from the farm – 2 houses and 2 large barns – as well as the basic layout of the grounds.

On the left is the green, and the barn on the right is where the Learning Resource Center (later used as the student center) would be built.  Bel Air and Havre de Grace Halls would be built next to each other in the background.