Keywords: barns
Item 25651
Barns, Valley Farm, New Gloucester, ca. 1937
Contributed by: New Gloucester Historical Society Date: circa 1937 Location: New Gloucester Media: Photographic print
Item 102394
Prize sheep, Brighton, Massachusetts, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Brighton Media: Lantern slide, hand colored
Item 78249
Barn, Tyler Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Kenneth J. McKenzie Use: Barn - Stable
Item 65532
Assessor's Record, Barn, Newell Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Isaiah M. Harvie Use: Barn - Stable
Exhibit
Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)
Exhibit
John Y. Merrill: Leeds Farmer, Entrepreneur, & More
John Y. Merrill of Leeds (1823-1898) made terse entries in diaries he kept for 11 years. His few words still provide a glimpse into the life of a mid 18th century farmer, who also made shoes, quarried stone, moved barns, made healing salves -- and was active in civic affairs.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin barn plan, Bangor, 1867
Martin wrote, "When I build my barn it will be like this if it comes under the head of a possibility.
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… The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn Harbor Cottage at Asticou Northeast Harbor Maine ca.
Story
A Smart Horse
by Lynn Peasley Sanborn
The horse brings the hay home while the boys are swimming.
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
