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Near downtown
Hope Street
Newfield
North Stamford
Westover/Roxbury
Long Ridge
Unknown Location
Farmers

Photo Archivist's Selection of the Month: May 2009

Henry Bouton and Al Avery, North Stamford

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 Robert Case's pumpkins
Walter Golden Paul Barrows Charles Crandall Connecticut Farms

Near Downtown

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

Bedell Dairy, 31 Oak Street, circa 1910

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

Long Ridge Dairy Ad, 1908

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
Violet Ferris Farm Violet Ferris Farm

Cows on Theodore Ferris property Bedford Street near 5th Street

Cows on Theodore Ferris property

South End

Samuel Scofield Farm, Soundview Ave. (map)

Samuel Scofield Farm, Soundview Avenue

Whitford Scofield   Whitford Scofield Bond, text on back of photo

Oxen at Samuel Scofield Farm

Haying at Scofield Farm, 1902

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

loading hay, Clason Wardwell porperty on Elm Street
Selleck Smoke House built 1848 by Henry Selleck. 1977.
Selleck Smoke House built 1848 by Henry Selleck.
1977 photo off West Ave. behind Southfield Village Apartments

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Hope Street
Newfield
North Stamford
Westover/Roxbury
Long Ridge
Unknown Location
Farmers

Photos © Stamford Historical Society

Other Photo Archivist Selections of the Month
Photo Collection Information

Postscript 2010:

Whitman Bailey Sketch of the Smoke House, July 22, 1950
Download PDF File

Whitman Bailey Sktech, click for newspaper clipping




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