neighborhood--Town population--500 give or take!! :)

Post Reply
 
User avatar
freetown fred
Member
Posts: 30293
Joined: Thu. Dec. 31, 2009 12:33 pm
Location: Freetown,NY 13803
Hand Fed Coal Stove: HITZER 50-93
Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut

Post by freetown fred » Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 11:57 am

For your looking pleasure--Finally remembered to bring my camera--just takin a drive around Town--Lotsa Amish--lotsa smallish family farms where the kids didn't want to take over & parents were gettin to old--many run down--Amish started buying them & bringing them back to life--now we're back to being an Agriculture community again--thiungs are good in Freetown!!! :)

Attachments

IMG_0001 (2).JPG
.JPG | 36.9KB | IMG_0001 (2).JPG
IMG_0004 (1).JPG
.JPG | 63.8KB | IMG_0004 (1).JPG
IMG_0005 (1).JPG
.JPG | 49.3KB | IMG_0005 (1).JPG
IMG_0008.JPG
.JPG | 61.5KB | IMG_0008.JPG
IMG_0006 (1).JPG
.JPG | 51.7KB | IMG_0006 (1).JPG
IMG_0007 (1).JPG
.JPG | 86.1KB | IMG_0007 (1).JPG

 
User avatar
Sunny Boy
Member
Posts: 25557
Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
Location: Central NY
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 12:27 pm

We've been seeing an increase in Amish as we drive RT 20 back and forth between our two houses, here in CNY and in NE NYS. Apparently, there aren't any farms for young Amish couples to buy in the older well-established Amish communities, so they've been buying up farms here is CNY.

About 20 years ago, I read that NYS was losing about 200 farms each year because as you said, a lot of kids didn't want to do farming when they grew up. Nice to see so many old farms being productive again !

The parking lot of the Richfield Springs Price Chopper supermarket has a couple of "parking" spaces with hitching rails just for horse and buggy. :D

And as I'm sure you appreciate, Fred, we love to see teams of Belgians working the fields.

We frequent a few of their stores and green houses along RT20. Very nice people to deal with.

Paul

 
User avatar
theo
Member
Posts: 2329
Joined: Tue. Feb. 10, 2009 3:46 pm
Location: 50 Mile North of Pittsburgh

Post by theo » Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 12:32 pm

Alright Freetown,, Another day in Paradise!!!! Thanks for sharing :yes:

 
User avatar
warminmn
Member
Posts: 8108
Joined: Tue. Feb. 08, 2011 5:59 pm
Location: Land of 11,842 lakes
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Chubby Junior, Efel Nestor Martin, Riteway 37
Coal Size/Type: nut and stove anthracite, lignite
Other Heating: Wood and wear a wool shirt

Post by warminmn » Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 7:06 pm

Thats a nice mix of woods, hills and cropland! It looks about the same as where I grew up but not where I am now. Thanks for posting them.

 
waytomany?s
Member
Posts: 3747
Joined: Fri. Aug. 16, 2019 3:02 pm
Location: Oneida, N.Y.
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harmon Mark II
Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Looking
Baseburners & Antiques: Looking
Coal Size/Type: Nut
Other Heating: newmac wood/coal combo furnace

Post by waytomany?s » Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 8:49 pm

About 5 years ago we had a community move in to the small town of Peterboro. 15 years ago I noticed the small group of Mennonite s in Stockbridge were branching out in the area as well. I noticed three new Amish families in Vernon this year as well.


 
User avatar
Sunny Boy
Member
Posts: 25557
Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
Location: Central NY
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Thu. Sep. 22, 2022 11:09 am

waytomany?s wrote:
Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 8:49 pm
About 5 years ago we had a community move in to the small town of Peterboro. 15 years ago I noticed the small group of Mennonite s in Stockbridge were branching out in the area as well. I noticed three new Amish families in Vernon this year as well.
Small town,.... all it would take is a couple of Amish families moving in to double the population of Peterboro. :D

Paul

 
waytomany?s
Member
Posts: 3747
Joined: Fri. Aug. 16, 2019 3:02 pm
Location: Oneida, N.Y.
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harmon Mark II
Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Looking
Baseburners & Antiques: Looking
Coal Size/Type: Nut
Other Heating: newmac wood/coal combo furnace

Post by waytomany?s » Thu. Sep. 22, 2022 8:44 pm

Sunny Boy wrote:
Thu. Sep. 22, 2022 11:09 am
Small town,.... all it would take is a couple of Amish families moving in to double the population of Peterboro. :D

Paul
Quite a few now. They built a school even. My dad lives just outside of the town proper on the same road as Madison county landfill. He said he doesn't know what is more dangerous, the trash trucks or the Amish boys on bicycles.

 
User avatar
Sunny Boy
Member
Posts: 25557
Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
Location: Central NY
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Thu. Sep. 22, 2022 9:55 pm

It's beautiful farm country up there, but too much snow for me. 30 years ago, I came very close to owning the Garret Smith house there in Peterboro. That RT54 could get a bit crazy with traffic even back then. :o

Paul

 
Hoytman
Member
Posts: 6001
Joined: Wed. Jan. 18, 2017 11:30 pm
Location: swOH near a little town where the homes are mobile and the cars aren’t
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hitzer 354
Coal Size/Type: nut coal
Other Heating: electric, wood, oil

Post by Hoytman » Sat. Sep. 24, 2022 8:36 pm

Nice pictures, Fred. Sure is pretty country you there.

 
hank2
Member
Posts: 846
Joined: Sat. Dec. 10, 2011 4:07 pm
Location: Berks County
Hand Fed Coal Stove: DS Machine 1400 WH ciculator; 1880's small cannon in reserve
Coal Size/Type: Nut
Other Heating: small New Yorker oil fired boiler; mostly used for domestic HW

Post by hank2 » Sat. Sep. 24, 2022 11:30 pm

Nice looking country there Fred! That's great that the farmland has been preserved. It reminds me of a lot of places in central Pa. What do you think they power that sawmill with?

Lots of Old Order Mennonite farms and businesses in my area. Very similar to the Amish, just a different sect that moved here from Canada about 130 years ago. At one time they were said to be even stricter than the Amish in some ways. I don't see nearly as many horse and buggies as I did 20 or 40 years ago. On some of the roads they have to travel, the traffic is deadly crazy. Those that are still using them is pretty much for Sundays and special occasions. A few even own cars but sometimes hire people to drive them. The farmers all have some big fancy tractor fleets, but they still install all steel wheels on them. Out of all the public and private golf club courses that shut down around here, at least one was bought by an OO Mennonite and converted to crop use. Warehouses by the dozens have gone up everywhere.


 
waytomany?s
Member
Posts: 3747
Joined: Fri. Aug. 16, 2019 3:02 pm
Location: Oneida, N.Y.
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harmon Mark II
Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Looking
Baseburners & Antiques: Looking
Coal Size/Type: Nut
Other Heating: newmac wood/coal combo furnace

Post by waytomany?s » Sun. Sep. 25, 2022 8:47 am

Warehouses owned by the Mennonites?

 
User avatar
freetown fred
Member
Posts: 30293
Joined: Thu. Dec. 31, 2009 12:33 pm
Location: Freetown,NY 13803
Hand Fed Coal Stove: HITZER 50-93
Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut

Post by freetown fred » Sun. Sep. 25, 2022 11:13 am

Yep, Mennonites are way less restrictive- Even with Amish--different settlements pretty much set their own standards. That saw mill in my pix is Amish. EX::: they don't purchase any elec. saws, drills, lawn tractors, battery drills etc--BUT--if the property owner (where they're working)--they can use them (that's Amish) -- Mennonites can own them. Like I said--each settlement makes their own standards.
waytomany?s wrote:
Sun. Sep. 25, 2022 8:47 am
Warehouses owned by the Mennonites?

 
hank2
Member
Posts: 846
Joined: Sat. Dec. 10, 2011 4:07 pm
Location: Berks County
Hand Fed Coal Stove: DS Machine 1400 WH ciculator; 1880's small cannon in reserve
Coal Size/Type: Nut
Other Heating: small New Yorker oil fired boiler; mostly used for domestic HW

Post by hank2 » Sun. Sep. 25, 2022 11:51 am

waytomany?s wrote:
Sun. Sep. 25, 2022 8:47 am
Warehouses owned by the Mennonites?
Naw, lot's of open space being eaten up by lots of warehouses.

 
User avatar
SMITTY
Member
Posts: 12520
Joined: Sun. Dec. 11, 2005 12:43 pm
Location: West-Central Mass
Stoker Coal Boiler: EFM 520 Highboy
Coal Size/Type: Rice / Blaschak anthracite
Other Heating: Oil fired Burnham boiler

Post by SMITTY » Tue. Dec. 13, 2022 10:15 pm

GORGEOUS town, Fred!! My kind of livin'!

Around here, farms get turned into yuppie housing developments with a $750k price tag (and UP!!). :no1:

Post Reply

Return to “Farming & Rural Life”