My childhood home. Miss it so much. The barn and large trees are gone now, along with the fruit trees.

Brenda, when did you live here? We currently own this home and would love any and all history in this home and property.

My parents bought this place in 1972 and sold it in 1995. We bought it from the Savage family who had owned it and farmed it for many, many years. I believe they were the original owners. It used to be a 40-acre parcel (possibly 80), I believe. We bought the five acres the buildings are on and the Quackenbush farm down the road bought the rest. At the time we moved in, Leo Savage, an old bachelor, was living there. My father replastered the first floor walls, stripped and refinished the woodwork, put in the upstairs bathroom, paneled the upstairs, put in two woodstoves, furnished it with antiques, and established a fairly self-sufficient hobby farm with cows, chickens, pigs, and a large garden with fruit trees, strawberry plants, grapevines, and a corn or hayfield. All on the 5 acres we had purchased. All of the buildings were used for something: the metal shed was storage for his tractor and his mechanical workshop ( he was a mechanic for GM during the day) and the brick shed out in the back was a wood workshop (he was quite the carpenter). The little building to the north of the house was an old milkhouse and we used that to store homemade sourkraut and pickles. I believe some of its past history before us included the property being used as a mink farm (that is what the brick building in the back was for--perhaps the large cooler doors are still there?) and also as a stopping place/inn on the road to Saginaw back around the turn of the 20th century. If I remember correctly, that original house burnt and the current house was rebuilt of sandstone. The Quackenbush family may also know some history that I am unaware of or have forgotten.
This was a wonderful place to grow up and I am so grateful to my parents for providing a great country home with wholesome experiences.

Brenda - this is wonderful. We have been doing a lot of research on this property and have been in touch with the Savage family. I would love to connect with you to gather more history of when you lived here! :) please email me: elliott10610@yahoo.com