The MOOO-sterios Cache Traditional Cache
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This is a quick grab at the historic Lewis Dairy Farm. Please provide a pen that writes on tyvek. Please also feel free to bring some bread, carrots or apples for the cows and ducks!Keep a low profile though on nice days it can get alittle crowded! Enjoy.
This history is being written by the surviving granddaughter of Livingston P. Lewis Sr., Janice Healy Hanlon in 1998, the year of the original farms 100th birthday. The original farm owner was a Vincent Lewis as far as can be determined who had the farmhouse built, some claim as early as 1828 but far more likely 1880’s or 1890’s would be correct. The original barn with wood pegged floors was built in 1898.
Livingston P. Lewis Sr. purchased the farm at 51 Burt Avenue, Northport in 1920 apparently from the Vincent Lewis mentioned above. The earliest maps available of the area show that Vincent Lewis owned a large tract of land bordered on the West by a line that later became Burr Avenue. The South border was Main Street up to 100 feet before Burt Avenue and then ran along a line roughly parallel with Burt Avenue to the corner of what is now Willis Street, where the boundary runs East bordering Monroe Burt’s land, to Waterside Avenue going North along Waterside Avenue to the corner of the now existing Oak Street, running West along Oak Street to the current Burr Avenue. There were other houses along Burt Avenue, 8 to be exact from the Willis Street crossing South to Main Street. Livingston P. Lewis purchased this described land consisting of 25 acres, a big farmhouse and barn.The farm continues today under capable hands of the Bill Davenport Family with a different theme. It is still a place for the whole community but now there is a Deli with Dairy products for sale and a meet the animals type of farm for old and young to come and enjoy while learning how another part of nature works.
Mr. Lewis retired from actively working the farm but not from gardening and doing all the things he knew best and enjoyed most. His hobby was housed in a coup behind the south side of the barn. Rare breeds of chickens, pheasants and other exotic creatures lived in this coup giving Mr. Lewis and many of his friends many hours of enjoyment. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis continued to live in their ranch home until Mrs. Lewis died there in 1957. Mr. Lewis continued to live there after his wifes death until his own death in 1969. All the years they lived and worked there and in the community they were good to the land and it was good to them leaving all of us with a Historic Landmark that we all need to treasure and preserve.
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