Peacemeal Farm North Dixmont

This was the 2nd generation Tasker farm on the North rd. in Dixmont.Across the road was a 3 story chicken house.
Earnest and Ruth Tasker was the last ones to run it as a dairy farm. The cattle was sold around 1967. I spent many happy days playing there when I was a child when we use to visit.

The only buildings left is the house and the barn. the wood and work shop that connects the house to the barn is also gone.

Sorry I spelled Ernest wrong.They had a son named Richard and a daughter named Barbra. I remember when it was hunting season there would be anywhere between 1 and 4 deer hanging on the porch. As you walked into the kitchen next to the door there was a water barrel full of ice cold water that came from a spring up in the pasture. On the left of the water barrel was the wood cook stove,I can still smell her biscuts backing in the oven.If you needed to use the bathroom you had to walk threw the wood shed that went to the barn and there was an out house.The little building off the corner of the barm was the milk house. The milk was put in 10 gallion cans as they milked and taken to the milk house and put in a cold water cooler until it was picked up by the dairy. They raised sheep,pigs and chickens. There was a walk in freezer in the barn for all their meat. My dad helped Ernest hay and the built a hay elevator to put the hay to the top of the barn instead of throwing it. They quit farming when the dairy wanted them to go to a bulk tank and pipe line system. I remember riding on the bailer when bailing hay.So many great memories.

my family lived across the road from this place. I was a child, do not know the years/

My mother Betty Ruth (Foster) Callery spent many summers in this area of Penobscot Co, Maine and Dixmont. My mother is a desc of the Tasker Family. Stephen Tasker and his wife and cousin Clarissa Tasker. When she and I visited ME she took me to this area.

The farm was bought by my Grandparents Wilbur an Jennie Allen Tasker,for $ 1000.00 in 1900.All of my dads brothers an sisters were born there.Dads brother Basil was a twin An Russell died after a few hours old,Clara died as an infant, an Grace lived to marry Nealand Smith.
There was a db door freezer on the porch just as you go in kitchen.And they hayed with horses which I drove an when we took it to the barn someone would put the hay fork in the hay an I use to drive a horse out with a rope an pull the hay to the top of the barn until it hit a track that would take it to one side of the barn or the the other,(a job I did not like)As that horse was huge.Oh I could go on an on but this will do for now.Eventually Dad an Mum bought the farm across the road they rented the house an Mum raised chickens in the barn.The farm was called the Welch Place.

I was born in the house an lived therentil I got married in 1956

My wife and I went for a ride and stopped to get some veggies there the other day. I asked I we could look around and no problem. We was taken into the barn and my memory started working. Saying what was here and there. On a beam on the wall near the ceiling was 4 old rusty name plates of cows that once stood there. We walked up the hallway that was once the wood shed then into the house. It wasn't the same but in my eyes I could see how it use to be when I was a child. I was a year old when you got married Barbara.