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History of Mountain Glen Stables
 Mountain
Glen Stable has a history dating back to the turn of the last century.
Livingston Mather, son of noted Clevelander, Samuel Mather, grew up
spending summers at the Little Mountain Club, a resort colony on the top
of Little Mountain. He never forgot his love of the area. When he
married he introduced his wife, Grace Harmon, to Little Mountain. She
loved it as well and they began, along with their riding friends, to
purchase land to create a horseback riding preserve.
Between the teens
and fifties Mather accumulated about 3,000 acres on the south-eastern
slopes of Little Mountain extending all the way to the banks of Big Creek
and the East Branch of the Chagrin River. He focused on the special
places he had learned to love as a boy. Early on he built the riding
stable at the intersection of Griswold and Hermitage Road. That stable
still forms the core of Mountain Glen’s riding program today.
Mather
constructed six ponds on the property, preserved several wetlands and
prevented
 trail
erosion by constructing numerous river stone bridges and culverts. In
the fifties he generously gave Stebbins Gulch to the neighboring Holden
Arboretum and what today is Big Creek Park to the State of Ohio.
Today,
more than 900 acres remain in the ownership of Liv’s grandchildren and
great-grandchildren under the name of his beloved Mountain Glen Farm.
Conservation easements have been placed on much of the land assuring its
rural character in perpetuity. More than 50 miles of trails are
accessible from the stable on Mountain Glen lands and on adjoining lands
whose owners have shared riding privileges. We feel honored to be able
to continue Liv’s legacy by opening Mt. Glen Stable and farm to like-minded souls who enjoy riding in a truly rural environment.
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