Friday, September 27, 2013

Church-Powers-Piper-Wajda Barn, ~1890, and Barrett Sugarhouse


Lower Waterford Road, Yankee barn, no public access. Stone foundation, post and beam frame with barn board siding, gable roof of wood with corrugated metal. High drive. Entrance in gable from. About 90 by 45.

Barn used for household storage 2013. Sugarhouse built circa 1960 by Ken Barrett who owned farm after Powers. Forest encroaching.

Research by Helen Chantal Pike and Dave Morrison, interviewing residents: Lyman Church was original farmer here; he married daughter of Claude Davison up the road. The couple's only child, daughter Stella, married Ernest Powers (third cousin of Upper Waterford Powers). Stella became Town Clerk. Next owner was Ken Barrett, who built the sugarhouse located in brush behind barn. Next owner William Piper shored up posts with concrete blocks; never farmed property but may have kept horses.

Town history indicates farm was first cleared and settled by Zenas Goss, then known as the Claudius Davison farm.

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