Crabtree Farm
Left: House as it looked in the 1990s. Note the new addition on the north was added in the early 1970s.
Farm house east of Odessa as it looked in the early 1960s (Abt.)
Sisters Mildred and Ella on the front porch of the old house.
Original farm house when Earl, Milldred, and Robert moved here in the late 1930s. It was torn down and replaced with the house as seen above about 1949. The building to the right is the Ice House.
Outbuildings and Barns
A remaining artifact from the barn
The barn on the farm where I was raised. It is constructed with solid oak beams and framing. The beams were held together with mortise and tenion craftmanships with oak pins (see picture below). It sat on a rock foundation. The barn had stanchions for dairy cows, several horse stalls, a corn crib and two grain bins. The hay loft was large. To the left was a pond, well, and windmill. It is reported that ten acres of land with white oak timber was purchased to construct the barn around the late 1800s. The barn was torn down in the early 1990s
Brooder house 1940s. Shed to left was the Ice House.
Brooder house about 2009.
Original garage that sat by the road. Earl, Mildred, and Robert lived in this when they tore the old house down and built the present one.
Chicken house, which sat in front of Brooder House. 1940s
Smoke house or shed, 2009.
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