Plummer Homestead facts for kids
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Plummer Homestead
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| Location | 1273 White Mountain Hwy., Milton, New Hampshire |
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| Area | 20 acres (8.1 ha) |
| Built | 1780 |
| Architectural style | Colonial, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 02000638 |
| Added to NRHP | June 14, 2002 |
The Plummer Homestead is a really old and important house in Milton, New Hampshire. It's like a historic house museum where you can learn about life long ago. This homestead was built in the 1780s and grew bigger over time. It's one of the oldest farms in New Hampshire, right next to the Plumer-Jones Farm. Both are now part of the New Hampshire Farm Museum, where history comes alive! This special house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
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Exploring the Plummer Homestead
The Plummer Homestead is located on the west side of White Mountain Highway (New Hampshire Route 125) in Milton. It's a classic 19th-century New England connected farmstead. This means the main house, a smaller house, a back house, and a barn are all linked together. They stretch out from the road towards the west.
The main part of the house was first a 1½-story Cape-style home. In 1848, it was made taller to become a full two stories. A long, seven-bay section connects this main house to a barn built around 1870.
This group of buildings sits on about 20 acres (8.1 hectares) of land. This land is what's left of a much larger farm. Some of the original land was used when the nearby Spaulding Turnpike was built.
A Look at the Farm's Layout
The area around the homestead looks just like a farm from the 1800s. There's a grassy, neat front yard. On the south side of the buildings, you'll find the main working yard. This is where the entrances to each part of the farmstead are located. Just north of the buildings, you can see the farm's vegetable garden.
The Story of the Plummer Family
The main house was built in the 1780s by Beard Plumer. He was the brother of Joseph Plumer, who built the nearby Plumer-Jones Farm. The house was lived in by many generations of the Plumer family, whose name later became Plummer. They lived there until the 1990s.
In 1993, the New Hampshire Farm Museum bought the homestead. Today, the museum offers tours of the property. They use the Plummer Homestead in their history programs to teach people about farm life long ago.
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