Revisiting the Shoemaker Farm

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Inside the milk house on 11/19/2010.

 

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One of my favorite pictures of the dairy barn. Look at the "tree" beams on the ceiling.

 

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Close up of the "tree" beam on 11/19/2010.

 

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Another shot inside the dairy barn on 11/19/2010.

 

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Inside the dairy barn 11/19/2010.

 

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The Shoemaker Farm 11/19/2010. My favorite picture. How beautiful life must have been on this farm! I'm so sorry for its former inhabitants and rightful owner descendants.

 

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Hopefully only the deer and bear are there now! 11/19/2010.

 

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The back of the root cellar (foreground) and the back of the shoemaker farm 11/19/2010.

 

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Side view of the root cellar of the shoemaker farm 11/19/2010. These was two stories and when you open one of these side doors the level is chest high! The front was screened in as a summer porch ... keep cool and keep the bugs away! Must have been such a beautiful place.

 

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Back porch of the main house 11/19/2010. It was all flagstone. The panel on the ground had been over the side door just 5 days earlier. Someone had pried it open to get inside between 11/12/2010 and 11/19/2010. Such a shame.

 

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Another image of the back porch of the main house at Shoemaker Farm on 11/19/2010. All the flagstone was overgrown.

 

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Front of the Shoemaker Farm house 11/19/2010. Note the short door on the right of the main entrance door at the far right! I always wondered why. Could be a cellar entrance? Or an original entrance?

 

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Front of the Shoemaker Farm house. I could never understand the flagstone pilings here. The "short" door is in the left of this picture.

 

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The "short" door in the front of the Shoemaker Farm house 11/19/2010.

 

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The root cellar/summer porch at the Shoemaker Farm house on 11/19/2010. Not a tear in the screening back then.

 

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Believe it or not, this is the "second story" in the cellar/root house 11/19/2010. Not high enough to stand in ... but this is the view when you opened the side door! There is a lower, underground level under this "room".

 

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Another view of the "short" room in the root/cellar house at the shoemaker farm 11/19/2010.

 

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Standing inside the root cellar house in the screened porch area at the Shoemaker farm 11/19/2010. You can see the stairs going down into the cool, lower level underground.

 

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Going down into the root cellar from the screened porch area. Shoemaker farm 11/19/2010.

 

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Inside the lower level of the root cellar at the Shoemaker farm 11/19/2010.