May Mast was Webster’s Renaissance woman. She was wife, mother, grandmother, school teacher, musician, artist, poet, horsewoman, farmer, church leader, girl’s camp operator, world traveler, and an original founder of the Webster Township Historical Society. May lived and ran a school/camp out of Cottonwood Farm on Farrell Road, with her barn located just south of Kleinschmidt’s General Store.
May’s Garden represents a typical farmhouse garden of the late 19th century. Flowers were chosen for visual beauty and to draw in pollinators. Herbs were selected to spruce up home-cooked meals and for the medicinal properties found in their leaves, roots, and petals. This garden grows on land purchased from May that provides the acreage for Historic Webster Village. The garden is located in the very heart of the Village, and boasts a brick pathway that commemorates friends and relatives of the township.
In 2020, WTHS began selling bricks for a path through this garden. This is the first of several we plan to install over time, one to each of our Village buildings. If you missed the opportunity to purchase a brick or if you would like to purchase more, click here for the form. This path was installed on July 10, 2022.
