I grew up here. This is the farm at its best, most productive time. Farms were 'general' in those days and there was grain (hay, corn, beans, and oats) and livestock (cattle, pigs, sheep) as well as a huge vegetable garden seen to the left of the house, hidden by trees, fruit trees , and chickens. The buildings just above the house include a 'brooder house' for baby chicks and a large chicken house for the grown-up egg layers. In the center bottom of the photo I can see a hayrack, a wire corn crib, the double corn crib with a drive through for machinery, etc. Just in front of the barn is the grain storage building. The barn provided a milking parlor and hay "mough" as my dad called it. Also some pens for 'fattening' the selected beef product-to-be. Lots of trees provided shade but several were elm and died of Dutch Elem disease. It was an idyllic life for kids in the 1950's and 1960's.

Ted Sweeting farm..known has the quarry farm...