TRPQ Milk Bottle Wheeler Dairy Farm North Stonington CT LONDON COUNTY JERSEY
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TRPQ Milk Bottle Wheeler Dairy Farm North Stonington CT NEW LONDON COUNTY JERSEY
Here is a nice tall round green color pyro pyroglazed quart milk bottle from the Wheeler Wheeler's Dairy Farm Dairy Farms Dairy Farms Farm that once was operated by Mr. Wheeler and his family and located in historic No. North Stonington CT Conn. Connecticut in New London Co. County ...CT. Pyro is different front and back. Front says, "Wheeler's Dairy No. Stonington Conn.". Back has a nice picture of a Jersey cow's head and says, "Jersey Milk". This authentic milk bottle is from 1944 and is in excellent condition with no cracks, dings, chips, or casewear. The pyro is complete and bright with some very minor scratches. A nice addition for the collector of No. North Stonington CT Conn. Connecticut or New London Co. County CT milk bottles. I have been told that this is a very hard to find milk bottle from North Stonington CT.
Town Clerk and Municipal Historian Robert Nye said the barn was built in the 1930s by the Mac Kenzie family, who owned one of the town's larger dairy farms when agriculture was a big industry in Waterford.
The farm at one time spanned from Daniels Avenue to the Niantic River, totalling more than 100 acres, according to Nye.
Adjacent to the barn site - now home to a pile of rubble Lemieux said will take weeks to remove - is a roughly 3, 500-square-foot house that land records from the town assessor's office state was built in the latter half of the 19th century.
The chain of ownership of the land went as thus, according to Nye: the Caulkins family owned the land starting in the 17th century, leasing it for a school site in 1836; in 1855, the Caulkins deeded the land to Savilion Chapman, who served in the state House of Representatives.
Documents pertaining to the land from the Caulkins family reference a family cemetery.
"So, somewhere back there, there's likely someone buried, " said Nye, who discovered the reference to the cemetery while researching the barn.
In 1918, Chapman's heirs sold the land to a man named Hugh MacKenzie, according to Nye.
Lemieux said White Knight already achieved the necessary town approvals to make the new development possible. Construction is slated to begin in late spring.
Cameron MacKenzie, daughter of the younger Hugh MacKenzie, described the interior of the barn.
"The view inside was amazing. You'd look up and see the craftsmanship. There was really nothing like it that I had seen - you'd go upstairs in the big barn, you'd open the door, throw the door open, and the view of the bay was amazing, " she said.
Cameron lived in the family house briefly as a young child, returning in the 1990s for a spell before attending law school. She lived in the house a third time with her aunt Margaret from the late 1990s until the house sold. She still lives in Waterford and works as the criminal caseflow coordinator for the New London judicial district.
Cecily Armentrout of Old Saybrook recalled spending the summer of 1943, when she was 17 years old, milking 60 cows in the barn. She worked at the farm as part of the Women's Land Army with her classmate Nancy Kidder.
The New York Herald Tribune ran a photo of Armentrout - maiden name Brown - with a June 1943 article titled "Farmerette Finds Cow Has Personality, " about the farming program. The program brought women from cities and towns to farms to take the place of men who had left to fight in World War II.
Armentrout, who grew up in Charlottesville, Va., spoke Thursday about ice-cold baths and long days milking, pasteurizing and bottling milk - experiences that opened her eyes to farm life. Pasteurization and bottling took place in a smaller barn located near the main barn. The smaller barn also has been demolished.
"We worked harder than we ever thought we'd work in our lives, " Armentrout said in a phone interview. She said she and her St. Anne's School classmate were solely responsible that summer for the milking process.
Cameron said the property ceased serving as a farm by the time she was born in 1967. The barn was used from then on for storage of items ranging from property belonging to Millstone power station to theater props to boat parts.
Soon after the family ceased to run the dairy, they sold part of the land for what is now a neighborhood. Many residents of that neighborhood had developed a fondness for the now-destroyed barn, just as the MacKenzie family had.
"We kind of just admired it. It was definitely just something to admire, " said High Ridge Drive resident Megan Goldschneider, 14, on Wednesday evening. Goldschneider had organized an impromptu field trip to the site of the demolition for her 12-year-old brother Dylan and his middle school classmates when they got off the bus after school Wednesday.
The siblings' mother, Margaret, said her husband, Dave, had come home during his lunch break to take photos of the barn as it was being demolished.
The MacKenzie barn was among the roughly 8, 000 structures the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation featured as part of its Historic Barns of Connecticut project.
The goal of the project was to document old barns and identify those that might merit recognition by the state historic register, according to CT Trust Deputy Director Christopher Wigren, with the ultimate goal of preserving some of the barns.
"Barns are part of our identity as a state, as a place and even as localities, as well, " Wigren said Friday. "When you lose barns, you're chipping away a part of that identity."
My Policies:Pyroglazed milk bottles come filled with white milk bottle beads or white polyfill. Embossed bottles are not filled with beads. Bottles come with original milk bottle caps. Caps will be from the same dairy only when available.Please bid with confidence. I am a long time member of the National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors. I will combine shipping to save you some money. I am a very careful packer. Thanks for looking!Another auction from Nysmilks
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Here is a nice tall round green color pyro pyroglazed quart milk bottle from the Wheeler Wheeler's Dairy Farm Dairy Farms Dairy Farms Farm that once was operated by Mr. Wheeler and his family and located in historic No. North Stonington CT Conn. Connecticut in New London Co. County ...CT. Pyro is different front and back. Front says, "Wheeler's Dairy No. Stonington Conn.". Back has a nice picture of a Jersey cow's head and says, "Jersey Milk". This authentic milk bottle is from 1944 and is in excellent condition with no cracks, dings, chips, or casewear. The pyro is complete and bright with some very minor scratches. A nice addition for the collector of No. North Stonington CT Conn. Connecticut or New London Co. County CT milk bottles. I have been told that this is a very hard to find milk bottle from North Stonington CT.
Town Clerk and Municipal Historian Robert Nye said the barn was built in the 1930s by the Mac Kenzie family, who owned one of the town's larger dairy farms when agriculture was a big industry in Waterford.
The farm at one time spanned from Daniels Avenue to the Niantic River, totalling more than 100 acres, according to Nye.
Adjacent to the barn site - now home to a pile of rubble Lemieux said will take weeks to remove - is a roughly 3, 500-square-foot house that land records from the town assessor's office state was built in the latter half of the 19th century.
The chain of ownership of the land went as thus, according to Nye: the Caulkins family owned the land starting in the 17th century, leasing it for a school site in 1836; in 1855, the Caulkins deeded the land to Savilion Chapman, who served in the state House of Representatives.
Documents pertaining to the land from the Caulkins family reference a family cemetery.
"So, somewhere back there, there's likely someone buried, " said Nye, who discovered the reference to the cemetery while researching the barn.
In 1918, Chapman's heirs sold the land to a man named Hugh MacKenzie, according to Nye.
Lemieux said White Knight already achieved the necessary town approvals to make the new development possible. Construction is slated to begin in late spring.
Cameron MacKenzie, daughter of the younger Hugh MacKenzie, described the interior of the barn.
"The view inside was amazing. You'd look up and see the craftsmanship. There was really nothing like it that I had seen - you'd go upstairs in the big barn, you'd open the door, throw the door open, and the view of the bay was amazing, " she said.
Cameron lived in the family house briefly as a young child, returning in the 1990s for a spell before attending law school. She lived in the house a third time with her aunt Margaret from the late 1990s until the house sold. She still lives in Waterford and works as the criminal caseflow coordinator for the New London judicial district.
Cecily Armentrout of Old Saybrook recalled spending the summer of 1943, when she was 17 years old, milking 60 cows in the barn. She worked at the farm as part of the Women's Land Army with her classmate Nancy Kidder.
The New York Herald Tribune ran a photo of Armentrout - maiden name Brown - with a June 1943 article titled "Farmerette Finds Cow Has Personality, " about the farming program. The program brought women from cities and towns to farms to take the place of men who had left to fight in World War II.
Armentrout, who grew up in Charlottesville, Va., spoke Thursday about ice-cold baths and long days milking, pasteurizing and bottling milk - experiences that opened her eyes to farm life. Pasteurization and bottling took place in a smaller barn located near the main barn. The smaller barn also has been demolished.
"We worked harder than we ever thought we'd work in our lives, " Armentrout said in a phone interview. She said she and her St. Anne's School classmate were solely responsible that summer for the milking process.
Cameron said the property ceased serving as a farm by the time she was born in 1967. The barn was used from then on for storage of items ranging from property belonging to Millstone power station to theater props to boat parts.
Soon after the family ceased to run the dairy, they sold part of the land for what is now a neighborhood. Many residents of that neighborhood had developed a fondness for the now-destroyed barn, just as the MacKenzie family had.
"We kind of just admired it. It was definitely just something to admire, " said High Ridge Drive resident Megan Goldschneider, 14, on Wednesday evening. Goldschneider had organized an impromptu field trip to the site of the demolition for her 12-year-old brother Dylan and his middle school classmates when they got off the bus after school Wednesday.
The siblings' mother, Margaret, said her husband, Dave, had come home during his lunch break to take photos of the barn as it was being demolished.
The MacKenzie barn was among the roughly 8, 000 structures the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation featured as part of its Historic Barns of Connecticut project.
The goal of the project was to document old barns and identify those that might merit recognition by the state historic register, according to CT Trust Deputy Director Christopher Wigren, with the ultimate goal of preserving some of the barns.
"Barns are part of our identity as a state, as a place and even as localities, as well, " Wigren said Friday. "When you lose barns, you're chipping away a part of that identity."
My Policies:Pyroglazed milk bottles come filled with white milk bottle beads or white polyfill. Embossed bottles are not filled with beads. Bottles come with original milk bottle caps. Caps will be from the same dairy only when available.Please bid with confidence. I am a long time member of the National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors. I will combine shipping to save you some money. I am a very careful packer. Thanks for looking!Another auction from Nysmilks
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