Merlon Farris Farm, China

back in the day of dirt roads . ahhhhh ... those were the days

THIS IS ONE OF THE OLDEST FARMS IN CHINA. MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS LIVED THERE. THE WIGGINS FAMILY. IF AUGUSTUS WIGGINS HAD LIVED 2 MORE WEEKS HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 105 YEARS OLD. I USED TO STOP AND SEE ARCHIE AND YVONNE WHEN I WAS YOUNG WHEN WE USED TO VISIT MY GRANDPARENTS ROBERT & SARAH. MY GRANDMOTHER SARAH WAS A SISTER TO ARCHIE'S MOM FLORENCE, WE KNEW HER AS AUNT FLOSSIE. ITS NICE TO SEE THE OLD FARMS TODAY.

Moved to China in 1976 and found so many dirt roads mind blowing ! hahahaha....LOVED IT . This is still a beautiful old home sitting there in all it's dignity , alone. Love it and those BEAUTIFUL lilac bushes in front that I have to fight myself each year to NOT touch....hahahaha

209 Pleasant View Ridge Road, China, ME. The home itself looks almost identical to as seen in this photo, with few changes to the one side seen. The small shed behind it has since been removed and replaced with a two-bay garage. Between 2011 and 2020 a large 2 1/2 story gable-roofed barn building with three garage doors was constructed, on the opposite side of the driveway from the home. The barn across the road was either lost or reconstructed to have a gambrel roof, with a similar-sized building still standing today.

The fields around the house have changed the most in this picture. The tree-lined lot towards the bottom of the photograph is now occupied by a home (the very edge may sneak into the same photograph today), and the same is true of the space between the photographer and the barn - a home was constructed here sometime in the mid-late 2010s.