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  3. Topics We Will Cover • What is Cloverdale? • 1804 Settlers • Early Life, Infrastructure • Two Weddings: 1886 and 1911 • Wayside Farm and Westview Farm Presentation to the Westford Historical Society By Beth Putnam Cole and George Putnam July 17, 2017 3

  4. What is Cloverdale? 4

  5. Google Maps knows where Cloverdale is! The “center” of Cloverdale is approximately the intersection of Seymour Road and Vermont Route 15 5

  6. Intersection of VT Route 15 and Seymour Road, next to K & R Automotive Repair, 2017 6

  7. Cloverdale runs from the Putnam Farm… Photos taken 2017 7

  8. …to the Cloverdale Farm Photos taken 2017 8

  9. Cloverdale 9

  10. F. W. Beers Atlas 1869 10

  11. 1804 Settlers 11

  12. Possible route in 1804 from Hollis, NH to Westford, VT 12

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  14. Land purchases by the NH folk that are recorded in Westford archives 14

  15. The Jordan House Before its modern day restoration 15

  16. Former Jordan House, 2017 16

  17. The McClure House Adjacent to the Cloverdale Cemetery 17

  18. Former McClure House, 2017 18

  19. Cloverdale Farm House (probably at the time it was owned by the Robinsons) 19

  20. Site of Cloverdale Farm House, 2017 20

  21. Cloverdale Farm unknown date, perhaps late 1800s or early 1900s 21

  22. Cloverdale Farm c. 1990s 22

  23. Cloverdale Farm, 2017 23

  24. Hobart House, 2017 24

  25. Jackson Place, 1987 25

  26. Hayden/Leach House, 1996 26

  27. Former Allen Irish House, 2017 27

  28. Allen Irish Barn, 1996 28

  29. Old Barron house on the Putnam Farm. Used as a bunkhouse for railroad men in 1877. 29

  30. 2017 30

  31. Early Life and Infrastructure 31

  32. Topo Map 1948 32

  33. Potash – America’s First Industrial Chemical 33

  34. The mill site on Beaver Brook in Cloverdale. On the left side can be seen stone work that once supported a mill wheel. Photo taken by 34 Harold Putnam on April 27, 1996.

  35. The mill site on Beaver Brook in Cloverdale. Stone work visible in the center. Photo taken 35 by Harold Putnam on April 27, 1996.

  36. Cloverdale School Sunday School 36

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  38. Cloverdale Creamery 38

  39. Cloverdale Creamery 39

  40. K & R Automotive Repair, 2017 On the site of the former Cloverdale Creamery 40

  41. House across from K & R Automotive Repair, 2017 Believed to have been the manager’s residence for the Cloverdale Creamery. 41

  42. School Former RR Track Mill Site on Creamery & Beaver Brook Freight RR Station Seymour Road Cloverdale Farm Former RR Track Topo Map 1948 42

  43. Two Weddings 1886 and 1911 43

  44. The Robinson House Fletcher Proctor and Minnie Robinson 44

  45. J. Kinsley & Mabelle Putnam December 25, 1911 45

  46. Wayside Farm Westview Farm 46

  47. Putnam House at Wayside Farm c. 1900 47

  48. Putnam House, 2004 48

  49. Five Sugarhouses on the Putnam Farm 1860s to 2017 49

  50. Westview Farm c. 1900 with fruit stand on upper side of road Note “Westview” on barn, “apples” on fruit stand. 50

  51. “Fruit House” c. 2006 51

  52. Westview Farm, 2008 52

  53. Westview Farm, 2017 53

  54. Huffman House at Westview Farm, 2017 54

  55. A few pictures of the meeting of the Vermont Horticultural Society at Westview Farm in August, 1914. Over 500 people attended. 55

  56. Touring the orchards 56

  57. At the “Fruit House” 57

  58. At the farm house 58

  59. The Westford town band 59

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