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Rollenhagen, Frederick & Emmy: This was a part of several orig- inal lots, the buildings being upon the glebe or school lot No. 116 and owned by the family of Daniel Lynde for many years prior to 1842, when he deeded to Samuel McClure of Brattleboro, a part of his farm, the balance being leased by the selectmen in 1843 to Darius Kingsley, who conveyed in 1847 to his son Ozaias D. The latter deeded to L. Lu- buscher, who sold in 1866 to Gilbert D. McClure, son of Samuel. The latter conveyed his portion to Gilbert in 1873. Gilbert remained there
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during his life after which the place was sold to Don H. & Ida Miller of Brattleboro, who sold to Walter C. Davis. He sold to Charles D. Record in 1917. R. A. Edwards bought in 1920. Harold P. & Maude White bought in 1928. They sold to Marion Glasgow in 1932. She sold to Valleau Wilkie in 1934, the same year Milton & Marion Moun- tain bought. 1944 saw it change hands again to Frederick & Margaret Rollenhagen. Since 1958 the place is in Frederick & Emmy Rollen- hagen's name.
St. John, Sam W. & Gladys: They bought a lot from Bertha Tier in 1952 and have since built a camp on the property.
Smead Lumber Co .: They own 4 parcels of woodland, three are in this district while one which adjoins in District No. 12. They were bought in 1942 from Carroll Haskins.
Spear, Richard: He bought a lot from Starr Clark in 1960. It borders on the brook which runs in back of No. 2 Schoolhouse.
Swain, Martha O .: In 1775 Jabez Wood deeded 50 acres, the north part of lot No. 108 to William Marsh, who deeded to his son, Wm. Marsh Jr., in 1823. William Jr. deeded in 1828 to Joel and Linus Marsh.
James Salisbury estate sold to Sam. H. Bixby in 1855, 23 acres part of the Roberts place, also 22 acres and buildings.
In 1872 John and Lydia Frizzle deeded to Lorenzo the property which had been bought by them of Fanny Bixby, being a part of Jas. Salisbury's estate. Lorenzo and Ida M. Frizzell deeded this in 1885 to Gilbert E. Morse of Chicopee Falls, Mass., describing it as the same "had of Charlotte Parker." Morse deeded to Louis Whitney in 1915. Louis & Margaret, 2nd wife, lived here until 1947 when they sold to Joseph & Genevieve Small who owned it only 2 years, then sold to Martha O. Swain.
Tier, Bertha: A woodlot of 15 acres more or less which Walter Castle bought in 1926 from Mary Bullock. It had been in the Bullock family for a long time.
Walker, Chester J. & als .: Ira and Marella Earl to Flavel Parker in 1872. Parker sold in 1872 to John K. Walder, of Palmer, Mass. and he deeded in 1892 to Chas. H. Davis of Brattleboro. In 1906 Davis deeded to Geo. S. Miller who lived here until 1913 when he sold to Mrs. Lina M. Bardwell of Hadley, Mass. She deeded to J. L. Clark & F. L. Wellman the next year. James J. Grover bought of them in 1917. He lived there many years. The place was sold in 1953 to Chester J. Walker and others.
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Walker, Henry C. & Evelyn A .: This place was part of the Thomas Lynde Estate, who with the Brattleboro Trust Co. sold to Charles & Vera Nichols in 1945. The Nichols sold to the Walkers in 1955. They also own a four acre lot which was sold by George Watson to Nichols in 1947. He sold this the same time the farm was sold.
Watson, George & Louise: The Russell Briggs Estate sold to the Watsons in 1950 the Briggs lot. The Sherry place went to Charles Crosby in 1917, who the next year sold to Henry Brown. Another year and the property was deeded to George Watson. Holden & Martin sold to George, a pasture in 1934. This is all in District No. 2. There is another lot known as part of Abbott place of 5 acres which is in Dis- trict No. 1.
Whitney, Margaret: Samuel & Almira Bixby deeded in 1881 to their son Albert A. who deeded in 1905 to Wesley E. Whitney. Louis Whitney gained possession from the Estate of Wesley E. Whitney in 1941. 1951 the place was decreed to Margaret Whitney, widow, from the Louis Whitney Estate.
Whitaker, John W .: This is the No. 2 Schoolhouse and lot. The Town School District deeded it to Warren B. & Lawrence E. Franklin in 1958. They sold to Whitaker in 1959.
Whitworth, Norman E. & Rosamond: This is a lot from the former Bennett property sold to Starr J. Clark in 1941. Starr J. sold a part to these owners in 1958.
Wyman, John & Nina F .: In 1940 Wilbur R. Bennett sold a lot to the Wymans. They have erected a small house on the property.
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Allen, Clifford & Jean: This is part of the premises Clyde Coombs received from Fred H. Coombs in 1928. Clyde Coombs built the shop to house his Cletrac Agency. His dealership and repair business serv- iced a large territory. In 1952 the Administrator of Clyde Coombs' Estate sold to Leslie R. & Hazel D. Ormond, who continued in the tractor business. The Allens bought in 1960. A tractor and machinery sales and service business is carried on here.
Anderson, Robert & Lawrence: This is the building known by many as the "Bee Barn". It came from the estate of Fred Coombs to Clyde Coombs in 1945. By two deeds it went to Russell Cushman that same year. Also Formula Brands Inc. had an interest in it that year.
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Frank Barber was the last to hold it in 1945. Then in 1954 By Admin- istrator's Deed it went to William Bushey & Stephen Meleski. Meleski sold his interest to William Bushey in 1957. In 1961 Bushey sold to the Andersons.
The "Bee Barn" was built by Robert G. Coombs to house his honey processing and bee keepers supply business. He dealt in comb and ex- tracted honey, also beeswax and held a dealership supplying all kinds of bee supplies, even to queen bees. The building has since been used for a variety of purposes including the manufacturer of ski lacquer and wax; paint and lacquer; floor covering sales building; paper proc- essing, and now the manufacture of organ pipes.
Bitner, John and Rachel: The first mill of any kind built in Guilford was the grist and saw mill of William Bullock, to whom James King deeded one and one half acres for a mill site in 1769; this was the site of the S. A. Smith shop below the present bridge on Broad Brook at East Guilford village, on lot No. 13 at its western boundary. In 1770 Wm. Bullock deeded to his brother Lovell, one half interest in the property. After the death of Wm. the property was conveyed to James Davidson, in 1787, who deeded in the same year to John Young- love, Azariah Ellithorpe and Abigail Atwood, all of Thompson, Conn. In 1790 Ellithorpe conveyed his interest to Daniel Bixby and the same year the property was sold to Daniel Boyden Sr. and his sons Daniel Boyden Jr. and Levi Boyden, Daniel Sr. deeding to the others in 1794. One half interest in the property was purchased by Nahum Cutler and Asa Bowen who deeded their interest in 1805 to John W. Blake, he deeding in 1810 to Samuel Baker Jr. Baker deeded the same in 1814 to Artemas and John Gale, who conveyed to Ephraim Gale and Eph- raim Gale Jr., in 1819; they reconveyed to Artemas and John the same year. In 1829 the mill property was sold to Daniel Clay and R. E. Field of Greenfield, who deeded to Levi and William Boyden in 1831; Wil- liam deeded his half to Levi in 1856; in 1865 the mill having been de- stroyed by a freshet. In 1892 the Boyden estate sold to L. H. Stellman. The L. H. Stellman Estate sold the site to John & Rachel Bittner in 1960.
Clark, Harry: N. W. & Annis Drury sold a lot to Charles B. Cush- man in 1949. Cushman deeded it to Harry W. Clark in 1948. He has a camp there.
Clark, Ruth E .: This is the first house in Guilford, on the state road from Brattleboro, on 100 acre lot No. 131. In 1793 David Joy, Jr., bought the land of Jasper Partridge, built a house and sold in 1796 to Charles Wood, of Foster, R.I., who sold to William Wood, he to John Wood, the latter deeding in 1810 to John W. Blake, who bought
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the Flagg Farm at that time, and with that property it was sold to Arad Hunt in 1816, to Artemas Gale and Philemon Baker in the same year, to Benjamin Jacobs in 1818, who sold the small place to S. C. Pratt in the same year; Pratt sold to Milton Tyler, who occupied the premises in 1818, and reconveyed to Pratt in 1819. It was owned by Thaddeus Whitney in 1830, and occupied by him in 1836, but sold by Fred'k Van Doorn to Nathan Haley in 1837. He lived here many years, his widow, "Aunt Mary" remaining there after his death, with her nephew, Henry P. Love, until her decease in 1887. E. Bradley Weather- head then bought the place and lived there until 1896, when after his decease the place was sold to Jesse T. Weatherhead, who greatly im- proved the property, building the two story portion of the dwelling house.
Laura Weatherhead, widow of Jesse T. sold in 1919 to George P. Kimball. 1924 found Norman & Frieda Newell buying it. They kept it until 1940 when Fay G. & Ethel R. Jacobs bought. They sold to Robert and Virginia Jordon who lived there until 1953, when Ruth E. Clark (Mrs. Roy N. Clark) bought it.
Clark, Starr J. & Ethel H .: This property started with a lot bought from Herbert & Helen Ingram by C. K. & Ethel H. Farnum in 1939. A house was built on it. Mr. Farnum having deceased it went to Ethel his widow. The property now is owned by Starr J. & Ethel H. Clark.
Coombs, Clarence, Viola and Mary: This is on 100 acre lot No. 10, in District No. 3 on the old road to Vernon, the lands bordering upon the state road, and extending into Vernon, a part of the build- ings standing upon the town line. This lot was deeded in 1791 by David and Rachel Taylor of Charlestown, N. H. and Samuel Trott of Walpole, to Jonathan Carver, of Hinsdale (Vernon). In 1793 Carver, then described as of Guilford, deeded to Isaac Pratt Jr. of Hinsdale, who came here from the farm known as the Isaac Eddy place, in Ver- non. Pratt conveyed to Jacob Wight, who deeded to Jonathan Russell in 1803. Russell conveyed to David Copelend in 1806, and Copelend to Isaac Brown of Wardsboro, Vt. in 1808; the latter deeded the home- stead to his son Isaac Jr. in 1814; he with his wife, Delinda, deeded the property to their son, Alfred S. in 1867, the property then comprising 250 acres.
Upon the death of Alfred S. the property descended to his daugh- ter, Mary S., wife of Chas. F. Coombs, who with her son Clarence, remain upon the homestead. Clarence has a son, Edmund who is en- gaged in farming and lives in an upstairs tenement. Edmund has two sons, so that makes six generations who have lived there.
The lower part of the present house was built by raising the house up and putting in the new story. This is the opposite of what a lot of
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folks do, when they raise the roof only and add another story on top of the old one.
Corson, Zadie & Elvira: John Barber's daughter, Almeda who married Rowland S. Thayer owned the Gale Farm once. Her husband built this place and lived here until his death. The property was sold to his daughter, Louise E. Thomas, who sold to Fred A. Thomas of Northfield, in 1894. He deeded to Julia, widow of Alonzo J. Weather- head, and her sons, Allen W. & Willis J. in 1900. They sold to John E. Gale in 1925. By Warranty Deed Zadie P. & Lucie E. Corson bought in 1929. After Lucie's death Zadie remarried and the place is in Zadie & Elvira Corson's name.
Cripps, Chesley A. & Minnie S .: E. N. Coffin sold them a lot of 1/2 acre in size in 1939. They have since built a house on it.
Dearborn, Allen & Ethel: The "Mary Ellen Smith Place" so-called was in the Smith family for many years. Sanford & Lillias sold to Gus- tave Holmes in 1946. He conducted an antique furniture business for several years. He deeded it to his son, Gunnar K. & Paula Holmes. They sold to Harry W. and Francis Momaney in 1958. The next year, Allen & Ethel Dearborn bought it. They carry on an upholstering business with his son, David Dearborn.
Dessaint, F. M. Inc .: This property was once a part of the Mckay land. Charles Plummer bought from Mckay in 1949. But Mckay deeded to Dessaint in 1953. There are 2 houses on the lot.
Dirks, Bernard: Annie G. Mooney sold to Edward & Mary Brackett in 1938. 1947 they deeded to Edmund V. & Margaret T. Vladish, who sold to Bernard Dirks in 1950. There is a camp on the lot.
Drury, Annis: This was a part of 100 acre lot No. 13, and was sold by John Younglove to Jonathan Melendy in 1801. The dwelling house stood about a dozen rods south of its present site, next to the two large ancient willows, on the east side of the road.
Melendy sold to Samuel Ayers in 1829; he sold in 1839 to Galusha B. Alverson, who sold back to Ayers in 1840; Ayers then sold, in 1841 to Artemus W. Adams, who sold to Josiah Arms, of Vernon. Mr. Arms lived here many years. He died here in 1876; his widow, Laura (Shep- ardson) afterward married Artemas Eddy, who came here to live. She survived him, and after her death, the place came into the possession of her daughter, Ellen, wife of Alonzo Weatherhead. Mr. Weather- head, having sold his farm known as the Prescott place, about one fourth mile to the south, removed the buildings on the Arms place to their present site, and moved there in 1902, where the family has since remained. The property of the late Ellen Weatherhead was de- creed to Annis Drury. Her son, Winfred and family live in these build-
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ings. On the lot across the road she and her husband, Norris built a new house when their's on the east side of the road was taken down to make way for the U.S. Route 91. Norris has since deceased.
The location of the homestead is 100 acre lot No. 13 in East Guil- ford village, on Broad Brook, about 20 rods east of the main road. The property was deeded by Comfort Rice to James Davidson in 1777. He sold to William Bullock in 1784; his estate sold in 1787 to John Younglove, Azariah Ellithorpe and Abigail Atwood, of Thompson, Conn. In 1790 the several owners joined in a deed to Daniel Boyden, Daniel Boyden Jr. and Levi Boyden Sr. The latter remained here dur- ing his life, as did his son Levi Jr. who died in 1895, when the property was sold to Edward P. Squiers, who built the large two story house, and the barn, the old barn having been burned. In 1926 Julia Squiers deeded to A. G. Gallup and Clifford Squiers. They sold to Norris & Annis Drury in 1934.
Dusavitch, John & Statia: This house and lot was a part of the Gale farm and it was sold by John E. Gale Estate to John Dusavitch & wife in 1955. The house had been built for Costello Gale Washburn, a sister of John E. Gale.
Estabrook, Harold & Kenneth: The original school house in Dis- trict No. 3, stood on the "old road" to Brattleboro, near the present fork of the roads and directly south from the Tracy farm house, on the south side of the road, where the Upton house later stood. It was in use for about thirty-five years, when a new schoolhouse was built on the south side of Broad Brook, about 1809, on land then owned by John W. Blake, who sold his lands in that year to Jonathan Melendy. In 1813 Melendy deeded the schoolhouse site, a triangular tract con- taining about fourteen square rods, to the inhabitants of School Dis- trict No. 3. This school house was burned about 1855. A rousing fire was built one cold morning in midwinter by some of the large boys, who left the house to go sliding, and the building was next seen en- veloped in flames. The winter term of school was finished in the bar room of the Broad Brook House. The old schoolhouse in the village had been converted into a barn and was used as such upon the Upton place, until it burned about 1890. A new one was rebuilt on a site south of Broad Brook. This one was in operation until a new central school in Guilford Center was built. The Town School District sold the No. 3 School to Paul Lawton in 1958. He sold it the next year to Ella Adams and others. In 1960 Ella Adams deeded to her sons, Harold & Kenneth Estabrook.
Fisher, George W. & Anna B .: The tavern at East Guilford, often called the Broad Brook House, was built in 1817 by Solomon C. Pratt; he sold in 1820 to Arad Hunt, the Hunt rights were sold in 1825 by
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Roswell and Erastus Hubbard to Paul Chase and Henry Clark of Brattleboro; the place was then occupied by Elihu Field; Chase and Clark sold to Consider Dickinson, of Deerfield, in 1825. During this year the place was occupied by Erastus Burt for a portion of the time, but in 1830 the property was occupied by Elihu Field at the time it was sold by Dickinson to Rodney B. Field; the latter deeded to his father, Elihu, in 1833, and in 1839 Elihu sold to Daniel Jacobs, whose administrator, Joseph Jacobs leased the property, including also the hay scales, to Geo. W. Kenney in 1855. In 1857 the Jacobs estate sold the property to E. Barney Gallop and Charles Squiers, Gallop selling his interest to Squiers in the same year. In 1860 Squiers sold back to Gallop, who sold to James P. Day of Putney in 1861.
In 1864 Day sold to Stephen Smith, who sold in 1869 to Mary, wife of Ranceler Wright, of Vernon. In 1871 Wright sold to T. Elijah Stockwell, of Vernon, who sold to Addison R. Baker, of Guilford the same year; Baker sold to Chauncey Guillow, of Brattleboro, in 1875, and in 1876 Guillow sold back to Baker, who remained there until about 1890 when he sold to T. L. Johnson; the latter sold in 1892 to Jesse L. Squiers, of Guilford, who reconveyed in 1897 to Johnson, who sold to Maria M. Bates of Erving, Mass. The place was occupied by Leslie O. Thayer and sold by him in 1908 to O. A. Fay, of Athol. Fay sold in 1910 to Hooker H. Winchester, of Brattleboro. The Win- chesters sold to Walter Mooney & wife in 1923. In 1926 John McKay and Ives Whitney each owned it for a short time. When George W. Fisher & wife bought in 1936 they received it from Edward V. & Alice E. Mckay.
Several of the owners operated this property as an inn, the name being changed from Broad Brook House to Broad Brook Inn. Under the ownership of John McKay, Broad Brook Inn catered to banquet parties, where B. H. S. alumni classes were among the reservationists. Country dances and card parties were held regularly for several seasons under the sponsorship of Charles and Mabel Whitney. Walter Morse moved his grocery store from the location of the Broad Brook Garage across Route 5 to the building now occupied by Elmer Scherlin's Barber Shop. George Fisher and wife acquired the stock and good will of the Morse store and moved the grocery business to its present quar- ters in the Inn.
SOME OF ALGIERS' OLDER BUSINESSES
Triphammer shop: This was on the north side of the old road, opposite the distillery. The first reference to it is found in a deed from John Phelps to Ezra Lynde in 1827, conveying the land and black- smith's triphammer shop, reserving the comb factory room. Lynde
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deeded to John Adams in the same year. Adams sold to Nehemiah P. Barton, of New Salem, Mass., in 1827, and he conveyed to James El- liot in 1829. He in turn sold in 1832 to David Wood, Samuel E. Foster, Willard Pomeroy and John G. Leavitt, of Brattleboro.
Card Board Factory: In a deed from John W. Blake to Joshua Blake, 1815, is included the "mill seat of the card board factory" with 18 acres of land, the location of which is uncertain.
Flax Machine Building: There was a carding machine on Broad Brook just above the present Algiers grist mill pond. In 1807 the card- ing machine lot was owned by Elihu Mack, the property consisting of a dam and building and three acres of land. In 1812 this was sold by John W. Blake to Sanford D. Hoyt, being described as "3 acres and a flax machine building." In 1819 the lot was sold by Benjamin Jacobs to Philemon Baker. Baker sold to Thos. Lyndes in 1819. Lyndes sold in 1820 to Benjamin Jacobs, who sold in that year to Erastus Root, who deeded it in 1823 to Samuel Houghton.
Cotton and Comb Factories: In 1820 Samuel Baker sold to David Jacobs sundry parcels of real estate, including "a large factory building, on the west side of the stage road, lately used for a cotton factory." This was on the north side of the brook, where the Coombs store later stood. The cotton factory was burned in July 1820. A blacksmith shop and triphammer shop stood between this building and the distillery further up. A new building was erected soon after the cotton factory burned. In 1823 this was called the "Gale's factory building." It was afterward used as a comb factory. In 1831 it was sold by John Fowler to Robert Bardwell, who in 1837 leased it to Robert D. Bardwell for the term of three years. In 1841 Robert sold to his brother Charles with his combmaker's tools.
East Guilford Blacksmith Shop: In 1819 a blacksmith shop was built on the north side of Broad Brook near the present cement bridge, on the site of a former store building. Nahum Cutler, Elihu Field and Hiram C. Kingsbury built the shop and it was operated by Kingsbury and Co. They sold during the year to Philemon Baker; he leased it to Jonathan Melendy, then sold to John Phelps. In 1822 he sold it to Sol. C. Pratt, who reconveyed to Phelps in 1823, the sale including the blacksmith and triphammer shop between the distillery and Gale's factory building.
Calvin Townsley sold the shop to Hiram Pierce in 1845.
Distillery: In 1818 Nahum Cutler and Elihu Field owned the dam on the upper Algiers gristmill site, and sold in that year to Artemas and John Gale, reserving the pump, etc., for the use of their still. The
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Gales combined with Cutler and Field in the distillery enterprise in that year, the firm being known as Cutler, Gales, Field and Co. The business was sold to Ephraim Gale and his son Ephraim Jr., in 1819, they conveying in the same year to Artemas and John Gale, brothers of Ephraim Jr. The property comprised three fourths of an acre of land, with a distillery and barn, and was on the triangular tract called the "flatiron". The property was again sold in 1819, this time to Asa Boyden, a brother of Levi Boyden Jr. This sale also included another distillery a few rods southeast of Abel Houghton's store (the Taft place near Guilford Center). In 1820 the property was sold to Jonathan and Arad Hunt on execution running against Field, Gale and Co. Both distilleries were sold by John Phelps to Solomon C. Pratt in 1820.
Cutler's Distillery: This distillery was on land later owned by A. Mellen, on the south side of the old road to Brattleboro, on the small brook. It was built by Nahum Cutler about 1800, and was owned by him in partnership with Asa Bowen and Levi Robbins. Their busi- ness does not appear to have been successful, as their property was sold on execution in 1806 to Heman Bangs and Gilbert Denison, who sold the following year to John W. Blake. Blake sold in 1815 to Joshua Blake, then repurchased and sold to Arad Hunt, who sold to Artemus Gale and Philemon Baker in 1816. It was sold again in 1816 to Francis Goodhue, of Brattleboro. In 1825 Levi Boyden deeded the land to John R. Bliss, reserving the part "where the old distillery now stands."
Fisher, Kenneth & Marie: This was a small house on the south side of the old road from Algiers to Brattleboro, the cellar of which is still in evidence. The barn was originally a schoolhouse, the first in District No. 3. In 1807 it was a part of the large farm adjoining on the north, then owned by John W. Blake.
In 1810 it was sold by Wm. and John Wood to Anthony Jones Jr. who sold the place to Solomon C. Pratt in 1811. He sold in 1820 to Gideon Briggs, who sold to his daughter, Rachel, of Halifax, Vt. in 1821. In 1825 it was sold by Levi Boyden to John R. Bliss, who lived there for a time, selling in 1827 to Joseph Grout. At this time there was a tan house on the property.
The widow Bathsheba Burt lived there in 1833. Chipman Swain sold it to Z. Dickinson in 1847. Dickinson sold to Hiram Pierce Jr. who sold to Elihu Field, the latter selling to Samuel N. Tubbs in 1865. He sold in 1866 to Mary S. Root. Albert and Mary Root sold in the same year to Philena R. Bardwell, wife of Samuel A. They sold to John Upton in 1869, who sold to his daughter Mary E. Thompson, in 1881. Chas. F. Williams bought the property in 1888 and sold to Lucy J. Chandler in 1889. The buildings burned and the site was sold to Albert Howard in 1903, he afterward deeding the property to Mrs.
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Lizzie A. Flagg. Her husband, Joel Flagg, sold to B. L. Rogers in 1926. He deeded to Zepher & Nettie Renaud who built a home and lived there several years. Nettie Renaud sold to Dulcid L. & M. Helena Renaud in 1947. In 1950 Kenneth Fisher & wife Marie bought it.
Fisher, Roland H. & Ruth A .: John McKay sold a lot to Oscar & Gertrude Johnson in 1930. 1950, the Fishers bought the property. There was a small house there.
Froomess, Gail: This is a lot and camp on Broad Brook Road which Margaret Grimm bought from Annis H. Drury in 1958. She sold it to her niece in 1959.
Gale, John C. & Sarah C .: The Gale homestead was settled by Ephraim Gale, Sr. who came to Guilford from Petersham, Mass. about 1776. This was on lot No. 11. After his marriage to Molly Rice, daugh- ter of Micah, he moved to the Gale farm. The first building was a stage tavern located on the east side of the highway a few rods south of the present dwelling. This was used until the building of the railroad in Brattleboro. It was taken down in 1850. The Gale tavern was listed in a Diary and Almanack published in 1817 by Bill Blake and Co., as a place where lodgings and horse keeping could be had on the road from Springfield, Mass., to Hanover, N. H. Ephraim Jr. and his bride began housekeeping in 1816 in the building which was the shop and is now the main part of the present residence. The large elm which was taken down in 1959 in the front yard was set out by Ephraim when he was married. John Ephraim (Sr.) gained possession of the homestead after the death of his father in 1862. There were substantial changes made in the house. Large ells were built and the barns remodeled and painted. The large ancient brick oven was removed in 1904 to make room for the town clerk's safe. Three massive stones of slate formation quarried upon the farm, cleft straight and square as hewn planks, set end to end on edge compose the thirty-six feet foundation under the sills on the west side of the house next to the road, while above, in the lowest edge of the roof may be seen slate thirty inches square, also quarried on the farm. John Ephraim Sr. died in 1869 leaving Jane E. Graves of Sunderland, Mass., his widow, and 4 small children under 5 years of age. She continued to live there until her death in November, 1919. John E. succeeded in ownership of the farm then. The property was divided after his death in 1945 between his two sons, Richard E. and John C.
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