30 A brief history of Eden Hill 1739 — Reverend John Sergeant, the first Christian missionary to local Native Americans, builds “The Mission House,” a wooden frame home on present-day Eden Hill. The home has since been relocated to Main Street in Stockbridge. 1855 — David Dudley Field, Jr., a lawyer and politician, purchases the property known as Eden Park and builds a summer home. 1906 — Samuel Woodward, a department store baron, replaces the summer home with the English Tudor-style home still standing today. He renames the picturesque land Eden Hill. 1938 — The Episcopalian Diocese of Albany, New York, operates St. Edmund’s School for Boys at Eden Hall until 1941.
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