Carl and Mary Krippendorf
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Carl Krippendorf was born in Cincinnati in 1875 to German immigrants. His father was the founder and president of the Krippendorf-Dittman shoe company. When young Carl became ill with Typhoid, his doctor counseled with the Krippendorf family to send Carl away from the dirty air of the city. A country doctor living in Perintown agreed to house Carl for the summer. Thus began Carl's love affair with nature. The Doctor was Dr. Perin whom they named the town after, Perintown Ohio. The town is just a short walk to the north from Rowe Woods. In 1898, Carl Krippendorf purchased 97 acres of the land
where he spent the summer recuperating to preserve it from becoming a
tobacco field. In the heart of his beloved woods, Carl built a home for
his new bride, Mary, where they lived for 64 years and raised a family
with daughter Rosan. Too this day the Rowe Woods is full of early spring flowers that bloom through out the Woodlands. The herb garden and water tower still stand. To this day the Krippendorf Lodge has thousands of daffodils, and the beautiful beech and maple woods continue to preserve the Carl and Mary Krippendorf's legacy at Rowe Woods in Milford. Rosan ( Krippendorf ) Adams
sold Lob's Woods to Stan Rowe and the other people who founded Rowe
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Krippendorf Estate History
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