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Description
Deacon Benjamin Weston settled on 600 acres in Madison in 1786. Weston Homestead remained in this family for 225 years.
The Weston family created the Weston Homestead Farm Corporation in 1974, and the farmstead was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Maine Farmland Trust acquired a conservation easement on 65 acres of Weston Homestead farmland in 2014.
About This Item
- Title: Weston Homestead, Madison, ca. 1963
- Creation Date: circa 1963
- Subject Date: circa 1963
- Location: Madison, Madison County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 2650, Box 84/1
- Collection: Weston Homestead Farm Corporation collection
- Object Type: Image
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