and Women's Crew Teams and UConn Sailing Club. The boat launch is run by the State of Connecticut. Occasionally, during the winter months, the lake will freeze over and residents have the opportunity to skate or fish on the ice. A lake island, Underwood Island, is located 100 yards from the coast of the lake. Nathan Hale Homestead, first established around 1740 by Deacon Richard Hale (1717–1802), the present structure has been standing since 1776 and was built to house the combined family of Deacon Hale and his second wife Abigail (Cobb) Adams. The original house, birthplace of Nathan Hale in 1755, is said to have been on the property, just southeast of the 1776 house. The original of the Hale farm now make up a large portion of the Nathan Hale State Forest. Today the Hale family home, located on South Street, is a museum open seasonally for tours and education programs. It is also home to a Farmer’s market, with food trucks and local small businesses. It is ran on Sundays in the summer months of the year. The Strong-Porter House Museum, , is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as the Coventry Historical Society's museum. Five rooms of the house, as well as several outbuildings, including a carpenter shop, carriage sheds, and barn are open to the public. The Brick School House, second construction completed in 1825 after original burned, it is one of the four remaining district schoolhouses in Coventry and was used through 1953. Caprilands Herb Farm, colonial farmstead, home for over 65 years to the late herbalist and author, Adelma Grenier Simmons. Hytone Farm, owned and operated by the Peracchio family since the early 1940s and a fully operational dairy farm since 1960, they raise all their own Holstein cows, currently have 165 young stock and use over of corn and grass for silage. Hytone Farm has received many Distinguished Farming awards through their years. Museum of Connecticut Glass is a new museum focusing on glassmaking in the state. On the National Register of Historic Places Brigham's Tavern – 12 Boston Tpke. (added April 25, 1982) Capron-Phillips House – 1129 Main St. (added May 27, 1982) Captain Nathan Hale Monument – 120 Lake St. (added February 28, 2002) Coventry Glass Factory Historic District – US 44 and N. River Rd. (added September 27, 1987) Elias Sprague House – 2187 South