Photo Archivist's Selection of the Month: May 2009

Farms in Stamford

While we have a numbers of photos on farms in our photo cellection, written information is scarce, the city registers are bare except for Dairies, and Whitman Bailey apparently was not interested in farms either. So this is mostly pictures only. Many photos are badly faded, thus we did forgo any sepia scanning. We entered all images from the collection, hoping that there might be readers who could fill in missing pieces. Anyone who can help us out here, please e-mail us.

We do have some illustrated newspaper and magazine articles about farms not in our photo collection:

The Advocate, October 21, 1991, Stamford 350 Years:

download City's farmer still living off the land – Golden Farms, Rockrimmon Road (map)
plus a brief history of Connecticut farming

Guide to Nature Magazine:

Poetry Prefaced Peaches, Paul Barrows Farm, North Stamford
originally owned by Charles Crandall, the Farmer-Poet (map)
Connecticut Farms – Robert Case – Windridge Farm – Hiram Sammis

Walter Golden	Paul Barrows	Charles Crandall	Connecticut Farms

Near Downtown

Bedell Dairy, 31 Oak Street, c. 1910 (map)

This was also called the Long Ridge Dairy, as this 1908 ad from the city register shows:

Ferris on Bedford Street (map). Close by we have Violet and Theodore Ferris, whose farm or farms were on upper Bedford Street near 5th Street:

Violet Ferris Farm

Cows on Theodore Ferris property Bedford Street near 5th Street

South End

Samuel Scofield Farm, Soundview Ave. (map)

Gentlemen Farming? "Loading Hay" Supposedly in the rear of Dr. Claison Wardwell's House on Elm Street (map) Three Wardwell Homes on Elm Street

Selleck Smoke House built 1848 by Henry Selleck. 1977 photo off West Ave. behind Southfield Village Apartments.