Many thanks to Mary Florio for sharing so much information about the barns built by Lorenzo Green, eventually becoming part of the Rufus W., Harry E., and then Henry E. Remick dairy farm. A lot of the information on these barns will be in the 2013 Waterford Town Report, as part of a longer exploration of the barn survey by local historian Helen-Chantal Pike. For now, I'll just mention a small story that goes with the farm:
Teachers at the neighboring Green School (named for the Green family)
usually boarded at the farmhouse. In the farm's earliest years, several
of the seven Green sons married teachers because of this. Teacher
spouses also abound in the Remick family, and today the farm owner has
retired from the Waterford School, after a career as an actively
teaching librarian. (Do you think it's something in the water? Smile.)REMINDER: Waterford Historical Group meets on the 4th Wed. of each month, at the Davies Mem. Library, 6 pm; as I write this, that's TOMORROW. Come talk barns.
