Old Farmhouse

While this foundation is huge, it is nonetheless difficult to see from the road.  It sits on the corner of Routes 177 and 6 (Farmington Road) in Farmington and is partially obscured by trees and underbrush.  The foundation suggests that the structure was probably built in the early 20th Century (1900-1930) and was most likely a series of buildings.  A low, stone fence (reminiscent of the early settler fences of the colonial period) runs behind the structure and into the forest, meeting other similar property markers.  A wire and wooden-post fence runs along the Farmington Road-line, hidden from view by the dense growth (although, if you look carefully, you can spot it).  A part of the curb is missing here where it suggests that a driveway entrance once stood.  If you follow the stone fence into the woods and travel back approximately 100', four ghostly shapes will come into view.  Three abandoned, rusted out hulks of 1970-model cars and one 1960-model car sit among the trees and underbrush in the middle of the dense woods.  They must have been there for a good while as the plant life is lush and prolific all around.  Further on along the stone fenceline, another skeleton of a car is sitting in the woods, its roof missing and the interior almost completely full of trash.  I am not sure what this site was, but I am researching it with the town records.  Updates will follow.

GOOSEBUMP FACTOR:  5

UPDATE:  It has been learned that this structure was once a large house.  The house, built in the early 1900s, was occupied until the early 1980s when it was suddenly abandoned.  The house stood abandoned until 2000 when it was finally demolished.  The Tunxis Community Technical College was actually negotiating with the owner to purchase it in order to expand its Farmington campus, but talks fell through.  Currently, a large developer has bought the land and plans to build in the area are in the works.  I will be digging to see if I can actually locate photos of the house itself, as well as a history of the families who owned it.

December 1st, 2004