Kevin Powers Barn, 1962

High Ridge Road, ground stable barn, no public access. Concrete foundation, post and beam framing, barn board siding. Gable roof of wood with sheet metal. Milkhouse. Entry at gable front. 100 by 30.

Located across from Pat Powers home. Barn has attached hay barn and milkhouse. Built by brothers Russell and Willard Powers as the main barn for a milking operation. Has been used on and off since construction. [Note from Beth: Construction probably coincided with the new requirement of concrete floors for dairy barns, circa 1962.]

Patricia Powers Barn, ~1890

High Ridge Road, English barn, access with request to owner. Stone foundation, post and beam frame, barn board siding, gable roof of wood with sheet metal. Milkhouse. Entry on eaves side.

Moved in 1945 as original location in Upper Waterford was flooded by creation of Moore Dam on Connecticut River. Stable and milkhouse were added in new location (1945-1950?).

A&T Powers interview of Patricia Powers: Barn was built in Upper Waterford (now under Moore Dam Reservoir) at an unknown date. Wallace family sold property to New England Power around 1945, dismantled and reassembled barn at its current location, and added the milkhouse and stable after the move.

Added details: Wallace farm belonged to Flora B. Wallace; for details of end of village of Upper Waterford see: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vtcbarne/UpperWaterford.htm

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.