Every Monday we share a vintage image on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia. The old photo above is the one we shared last week. Our thanks to William Morgan for sharing this photo (and many others!) with us.
Do you recognize this farm? Perhaps you may know or have a guess as to who the people in it are? When do you think the photo was taken? (I’m guessing early 1900s.)
It’s South Farm—this farm still stands today on land south of Essex, NY. You can see it to the right as you drive along Lake Shore Road not long after you’ve passed through the main town of Essex. Do you recognize the farm or has it changed a lot compared with how it looks today?
Here’s what the community has already had to say:
Steve Mckenna: Frisky Irwin farm?
Ronnie Marin Oliver: I agree with Steve, it looks like Frisky’s farm.
Juli Harwood: Ummmm…..?
Juli Harwood: Wait…Chris Oliver…I think that girl in the bonnet is your Mother!!! (she is older)
Share your own thoughts in the comments below!
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I think it is the South Farm as I was born on what Frisky’s place is now………Covels used to live there when I was there and went to the daughter’s wedding there and my sister was a bridesmaid………but looked soooooo different……and that is where Gov. Patakii now live……..
Thanks for sharing a few memories, Barbara!
Yes, definitely South Farm. It was owned by my great grandfather, Stephen Alonzo Powell, Sr., around that time, I believe. I showed the photo to my aunt, Julia Powell Work, who was born in 1926, and she said that the two children might have been two of his four. He had three sons and a daughter, lived in lower Manhattan and spent summers at the farm. My aunt’s father, Stephen Alonzo Powell, Jr., was born in 1885. She said that her grandmother (Julia Morhous Powell) had the house painted white and put in a walk down to the lakefront road.