Nature’s Retreat is the combination of two 19th century farms—Annie’s Place and Ancestor Acres. Both farms are adjacent to one another, and are located in the unglaciated hill country of Holmes County on Mitten Ridge. The Hall family inhabited Annie’s Place and the Mitten family inhabited Ancestor Acres. Both families were close friends for generations, helping each other with planting and harvesting of crops along with other jobs that occurred on the small family farms of yesteryear.Annie’s Place is rightfully named after Annie Hall. The next to the youngest girl of the nine Hall children, she was born in 1884 in ...