Carl Smith homestead Mars Hill Maine

This home is on the West Ridge Road, West side about a half-mile North of the road to Westfield. It was originally the home of Edgar Oliver Smith, Carl Willard Smith's grandfather. The next property on the same side of the road was owned by Fred Smith, Edgar's eldest son. A little North and on the East side of the road was the Leonard Lundeen's farm, the husband of Fred's daughter Ruth. Just a couple of small house lots to the South on the hill above the Northwest corner of the intersection of the West Ridge and Westfield roads, in the late 1930's Ivan Smith, Edgar's youngest son and Carl's father, built the fine Colonial where Leslie Smith Mahon, Ivan's granddaughte,r and husband Tim reside. Carl a farmer and later produce purveyor, raised Arabian horses and was active in Gymkhana throughout the Northeast. Two horses can be seen to the left of the barn and the exercise ring to the right of the barn.