Posted by Billy NY on April 13, 2013 at 11:32:35 from (72.226.79.200):
This is where it started for me, as I grew up here. The first photo is of an auction when it was the "Smith" farm, you can see a silo, the milk house which still stands and is the only thing left. I was fortunate that a seemingly ornery at times old resident at the bottom of our lane, had a friendly daughter and she was friends with the Smith's, got in contact with a great grandson and waited almost 2 years for these photos, they were supposed to be in the town's history book, never made it in time. It was around 1940, I figure the place was built in 1919, as that was some of the dates on the plaster in the house I found.
The 2nd was of the east elevation of this old house I lived in as a kid, gone too, unfortunate, there is just something to appreciate about places like this.
In the background is easily a thousand acres of mostly ag land, all connected, not many trees at all, you would not recognize the place today, but the field to the left is a large one, and I have worked it and the crest of the hill you see in the back which has incredible views of the Catskills to the south, the Albany and Troy areas, to the Adirondacks, to the Berkshires, one of my favorite places that is still in ag crops today, narrowly missed a huge housing project, thankfully a benefit of the recession in '08, they initially proposed 200 units or condos, some darned thing. These are prized photos as I have not been able to uncover any others of both barns, have some newer ones, some of which are still to be found from storage, family was not to keen on taking proper care of old photos, all of which we have but need to be gathered up.
The barn on the left had an addition put on, was an annex for a milking parlor, stanchion type, we later used it for horse stalls, that barn was huge, the hay mow was on the 2nd floor on the right and from the ground to the roof on the left, and you could drive through this barn, to get to the back was the least slope change and I still use that road today.
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