 Replete with a small damn and ice pond, the area had been a self-sufficient working farm until the last Nichol passed away at the turn of the 20th century.The Hollins family used this land as late as the 1960s for duck hunting and a private road connected it to HB Hollins Jrs nearby Crick Holly estate.by the 1990s the land and remaining buildings were part of Hecksher State Park and will not suffer the development of the Hollins's other holdings.