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History
In the 1770's Joseph and Beard Plumer, two
brothers from Rochester, New Hampshire, established their homesites on a
rise of land below Teneriffe Mountain in what is now the town of Milton.
The small cape style houses they built on their adjoining lots would be
enlarged by later generations. By the mid-19th century both families had
connected their houses and farm buildings to create long unified structures
often described in an old children's rhyme as "big house, little house, back
house, barn." The Jones and Plummer connected farm structures are some of
the best examples of this architectural style which has become a signature
of the region.
The Jones Farm
The Jones Farm and connected farm buildings
extend 275 feet and date from the 1770s to the early 1900s. Each part of
the connected farm structure tells a different story about rural life and
work in the past. A tour of the Jones farmhouse allows the visitor to walk
through time from Joseph Plumer's Revolutionary War Era cape, to Levi Jones
early 19th-century tavern, into the Victorian parlor and dining room and
ending in the early 20th-century farm kitchen.
► A tribute in memory of Rachel Pugh, who had lifelong ties to Jones farm... The Plummer Homestead
The Plummer homestead is home to the museum's
farm animals and is open to the public for workshops, lectures, guided tours
and special events. The museum maintains a collection of sheep, livestock
and chickens representative of those found on a 19th-century New Hampshire
farm. The history of the Plummer homestead parallels in many ways that of
the Jones farm. Owned by the Plummer family for two centuries the Museum
acquired the property in 1993 and is still working towards creating an
educational farm.
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