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This is on lower High Street just north of Allegrin's Lumber (shown in picture #2 on this roll).

I posed the following question on picture #2 before realizing that the out of frame to the left house was depicted in this picture:

"Last question, whose land was this (way, way back) in the early days of Bath (Long Reach)? I have always wondered about the farm house in the center of the frame and the other older farm house out of frame on the left hand side of the picture...if they were tied into the early settlers (I wish I had Owens book with that nice pull out diagram with me here...but I don't)."

I have no idea of the home's history but if memory serves me, it was the home of Ruben Purington when I was a child in the 50s.

This house is shown on the 1858 Chace Map of Sagadahoc County as the home of "R.S. Hunt." This link will take you to a photo that shows the house in the early 1900's.: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...

This wonderful Greek Revival styled house at 67 High Street in Bath, ME was built for Winnegance lumber manufacturer Reuben Spinney Hunt [R.S. Hunt] between about 1840 and 1858. The property later housed the Puringtons--while in 1967 my parents Roy & Emery Goff bought it. Our family started OLD BARN ANTIQUES here in the late 1960s, using the 2 barns to restore, store, display and sell Maine country antiques ...also a wide selection of rare and collectable antique wooden carousel animals. My mother Emery Goff's stone sculpture was also made, displayed & sold here too.

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