Historic Farm Photo Essay

The Spencer-Pierce-Little Farm in Newbury, Massachusetts, founded in 1690, today is a family-friendly site with activities for visitors of all ages. It features an imposing architectural jewel, a late seventeenth-century major house built as the country seat of wealthy Newburyport merchants. It is also a foster farm in partnership with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with farm animals that may be visited year-round.

Visitors of all ages learn about life on a farm over the centuries through hands-on activities. Pump water from the well outside the kitchen or sit in a horsehair-covered rocking chair and look through a stereo-viewer in the nineteenth-century parlor. Become an archaeologist as you piece "artifacts" together. Explore nature trails, and enjoy a picnic under the ancient maple trees. The farm is open on a drop-in basis.

We visited it as part for a research project my high school age son is doing for school.  They have a mascot turkey named Socrates that thinks he is a kid.  The farm holds a summer camp program and the turkey sits in the circle with the kids and even goes on the hay rides.

The farm is an oasis in a busy area with acres and acres of land that has been continually farmed for over 350 years. For more information visit historicnewengalnd.com