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Messinger Farm

In Richard Messinger's words - The farm (65 acres) my Dad bought just before I was born 2/3/1939 I lived there till he sold it to Ray Reindollar in 1958. Ray had the feed store on Lumber St which was sold to DeGroft and later closed. Dad bought the farm from Horace Wine after living at different farms before. We moved to just outside of town on the Hanover Pike till I got married in 1964 then we lived in an apartment which was Stanley Stover's and later sold to L. F. Berkhimer. The farm was one mile back on the Pine Grove Road the road went right between the house and barn. I lost a lot of pets there running across the road. I walked to school at Center School which is now Dean Shorb Insurance. In sixth grade I came to town at the now Community building

 

I put numbers to the buildings to help with what they were. 1. The main house with a porch around 2 sides I use to ride my tricycle around there and didn't get stopped at the end and went over. 2. The summer house which was used to cook in the summer and eat there to keep from heating up the main house. Mother made the jellies and jarred other thing in there. 3. The smoke house where Dad smoked the hams. It blew away in a storm around 1953 along with half of the barn roof. 4. The house where Mother did her wash and when we butchered beef, hogs and chickens it was done in there. 5. The shed where Dad kept the car and truck and other things. 6. The house where we started the young peeps and they stayed there till they were ready to lay and big enough to kill the rosters Dad always got straight run so we had rosters. 7. The corn crib, I remember the time I hid in there and Dad and Mother were looking all over for me that didn't work to well when I came out. 8. The big chicken house where we had the layers and I had to gather eggs. 9. The big wagon shed where Dad kept the tractor and wagons and other equipment. 10. The hog pen. 11. The milk house, we didn't sell milk but saved the cream and sold to a Creamery back of the old Patterson Apartment building. 12. The barn. You can even see Dad on the manure spreader in the barn yard. This was on a post card but I think Dad had a bigger picture.