Green-Remick-Florio Barn, ~1857

English barn, stone foundation, restricted access, barn board siding, post and beam frame, gable roof, wood roof covered with corrugated metal, entrance in gable front, footprint about 120 by 45. Sugarhouse, springhouse, shed, and icehouse also on property.

Teachers at the neighboring Green School (named for the Green family, farm owners) usually boarded at the farmhouse. In the farm's earliest years, several of the seven Green sons married teachers as a result. Teacher spouses also abound in the Remick family (later owners), and today the farm owner is a retired teaching librarian (Waterford School). The Remick family continues to visit, sharing photographs from their years of farming there.

Significance comes from (1) the unusual double-barn construction, (2) the early date compared to other town barns still standing, (3) construction presumed by the son of early-settling family, (4) overall large footprint of barns plus fenced yard, (5) first milking parlor in town, (6) evidence of multiple types of farm use since 1857. This big double barn at the corner of Remick Road and Green School Road was probably built by Lorenzo Green around 1857. Lorenzo, born about 1823, was the sone of Eli Green (1783-1860) and Lucinda (Graves) Green (1792-1879). He married Elizabeth J. Senter in 1853. His double barn consists of two gable-roofed barns that meet at a right angle. Records show that in 1887 the farm included 290 acres, 42,000 maple trees, 12 cows, and 18 head of other stock. By the turn of the century, the barns became part of Rufus Walter Remick's farm, just down the road from his father Walter Bowman Remick (born 1820 in Scotland, arrived in US before 1850, died 1899 in Waterford). Rufus Remick operated a dairy farm with a specialty in butter, sold locally. In the mid 1950s, under pressure of changing farm standards, particularly the requirement for a bulk milk cooling tank system, the farm ceased active dairying. However, horses and beef cows occupied the barn after that, through subsequent owner families Peterson and Wark; the current owner, M. Florio, bought the property with her family in 1985 and raised beef cows, sheep, chickens, and pigs in the barns. In addition to the two barns and the fenced barnyard, other agricultural structures on the property include a two-story shed where meat used to be stored in winter; a small icehouse; and the remains of a sugarhouse; plus the farmhouse. Gravity-fed spring water and electricity still serve the barns.