On the peninsula is the remnant of another large colonial farm. Originally owned by the Arnold family, it eventually passed to Benedict Arnold, father of the famed Revolutionary patriot-traitor of the same name, who
JA7). The second, named for the principal topographical feature at the northern end of Beavertail, is gambrel-roofed and may incorporate within it part of the original farmhouse mentioned in Benedict Arnold's will. It is privately owned, but the fields and walls sloping down to the bay can be viewed from the road.
Fox Hill Farm is of interest also as the twentieth-century home of the Sydney Wrights, who added the Neo-Colonial wing as both complement and foil to the ancient relic coupled to it. Catherine Wright, born Catherine Wharton Morris, granddaughter of Joseph Wharton, was a writer, painter, and philanthropist whose benefactions included Jamestown's Philomenian Library.