Bridge north of the Crewson farm.
Crewsons likely swam here!
Farm gate at the rear of the house.
Before the change came...
Original Barn Doors...
Barn's builder Morgan Crewson
Barn's handmade hinges
2005, the back section of the barn which becomes the courtyard of the new structure.
Inside the barn before demolition
Massive hand hewn beams provided the main interior supports.
Gears in a hand seed sower found in the barn before demolition.
Familly photos owned by the Tyrer family of Milton.
Note the barn behind the house on the left side and an additional house just to the left of the (1837) barn (located on the right side of photo). This was the hired hand's home.
Remains of a 2nd barn behind house - the archeological report didn't find this site!
Handmade nail in the barn floor.
Cow stanchions in the lowest level of the barn. Note the bark still on the beams above, these are 250 plus year old trees
Carole Tyrer at the Farm Pump
Area at the rear where the cattle stanchions used to be, now French courtyard inspired.
Note Adze notching in Barn Beams
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Crewson farmhouse two summers ago before the arrival of the work crews.
Beams removed from the house
Morgan Crewson applied raised lettering to the peak area of the house, on the south facing wall. Builders on site think that the date of the home, 1832 had also at one time been applied just below the name. It was said that the owner at one time chipped it off so that would-be buyers wouldn't know really how old the house was.
Interior of the house as seen from the back door, leading out to the summer kitchen.
Carole and Wilma Tyrer with a photo of their Crewson ancestors in front of the same house, taken in the 1890's. Sarah Soper, in the photo and pictured on the right raised 15 children here.
Crewson Family Bible
Sarah Soper
1890's photo of Morgan Crewson, son of the home's builder with his wife Sarah Ann Soper (his mother's cousin) and some of their children. Note the original porch.
Page from the family bible.
13 rafters once stretched across at ceiling level. Interior gutted, and now whitewashed.
One of two fireplaces in the original home. Note the triangular footprint this structure makes - it's two sided and was divided in two by a wall coming off it's corner. The other fireplace shows evidence of a fire that spread up into the second storey. The entire inside of the home was stripped out as it was considered unsalvagable by the builder.
Thomas and Emma Crewson
Pottery shards collected by the photographer on the grounds around the home, June/07. A bulldozer had rough graded around the home and dozens of these pieces, most measuring no more than an inch across were visible to the eye. Weeks later the area was hydroseeded.
Fragments found along north and west sides of the house.
Brandon Crewson
Hired man's house, once located between the main barn and the house, lost in a fire. Visible in the early photo of the farmstead.
Only the walls of the original kitchen attached to the west side of the house was left after the add-ons beyond it were removed.
New Roof, New Windows and Doors
Morgan, son of the original builder of the same name.
The door at the side of the house had been closed off, but was reopened in the stabilization of the house.
