 Within a couple of years, he laid out a town, built a grist mill and a sawmill, and he turned over the town and college to the Methodist Conference and returned to Berea, although he continued to finance it.In 1867, Baldwin purchased the Darby plantation in Louisiana, a plantation of about .At the age of eighty, Baldwin learned of the situation in India; there were large numbers of Europeans in India who could not get a proper education.