For the first time in a generation, Montgomery County's sprawling Erdenheim Farm has changed hands. In a 10-way, multimillion-dollar deal that permanently restricts development on 426 acres of the treasured land, most of the former gentleman's farm inherited by the late F. Eugene "Fitz" Dixon Jr. became the property yesterday of a preservation foundation and a Radnor executive. And it will remain a vast, cattle-and-sheep-populated farm improbably perched on the bustling border between Philadelphia and its suburbs. "We wondered how in the world we're ever going to get this thing done," said Hugh G. Moulton, chairman of the Whitemarsh Foundation, which has worked since 2001 toward Erdenheim Farm's preservation. "Finally, all of the pieces have fallen into place."The transaction leaves just 14 acres of Erdenheim Farm in the hands of the Dixon family, whose relations have owned its rolling pastures since Dixon's uncle George D. Widener Jr. purchased the property in 1912.

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