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The Simpson Farm

Windham Life and Times November 29, 2024

The Sullivan place was located on Range Road, near Jon Carpenter’s/Windham News location. It had been one of the most beautiful farms in Windham but had fallen into disrepair by the 1960’s. The farm was built by Samuel W. Simpson in 1815. Samuel’s grand-niece Eva Cutting is shown in the Baldwin Coolidge photograph from the 1880’s. The low stone wall still marks the spot near the road. https://vintageaerial.com/photos/new-hampshire/rockingham/1966/PRO/78/1
 

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Windham Chicken Farmers

The Sandberg-Kivikoski Farm

Windham Life and Times November 22, 2024

Chicken farmers were once plentiful in Windham. The above photograph shows the Kivikoski Farm with its chicken sheds. If you’ve never experienced the inside of a big chicken shed like I did with Alan Kivikoski, when I was a kid, I will tell you it is more than a little terrifying!  According to “Rural Oasis, “Poultry breeding began around 1924. The original breeders were A.L. Anderson, O.J. Cochran and R.H. Baily. As years passed, farms were sold and new people entered the business, and poultry raising in Windham (as in many areas of southern New Hampshire) became a profitable business. Kivikoski’s Farm located across from Center School was the last remaining poultry business. It finally closed in 1970. Few people today realize how many chickens were raised here during the period when this was really the only other business enterprise in Windham beside recreation.” https://vintageaerial.com/photos/new-hampshire/rockingham/1966/PRO/76/21
 

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Armstrong Farm

Windham Life and Times – November 8, 2024

This arial photograph from 1966 shows the Armstrong farm just after it had been divided by the construction of Interstate 93. I am wondering if the roadway near the barn is where Armstrong Road, to the lake, was located before construction of I-93? Dennis Root informed me that Armstrong Road was always in its current location. This is the Common Man Restaurant today. https://vintageaerial.com/photos/new-hampshire/rockingham/1966/PRO/77/26
 

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Mason’s Super Market

Windham Life and Time – November 1, 2024

The store at this location was opened in the 1880’s when Canobie Lake Railroad Station was opened nearby. Over the years it changed hands with several owners. Bob Mason ran an impressive store with meat counter with five or six supermarket isles. The roof of the original store can be seen in the center of the photograph. https://vintageaerial.com/photos/new-hampshire/rockingham/1966/PRO/78/20 The sign on the corner is advertising Mystery Hill.
 

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The Zins Farm

Windham Life and Times -October 11, 2024

“The house was likely built in 1775, since the foundation stone is inscribed with that date. Mose Noyes, a veteran of The Revolutionary War passed the farm down through his family, until 1881. His descendant James Noyes quipped, ’I have worn these stones smaller, digging them to plant my corn and potatoes.’ Peter A. Zins purchased the property in 1917. He ran a dairy farm and raised vegetables to sell. The Zins family were instrumental in the founding of the Police and Fire Departments. The thing I notice most in the photograph are the well kept fields and the gorgeous garden! https://vintageaerial.com/photos/new-hampshire/rockingham/1966/PRO/77/14
 

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Henry’s-Windham NH Country Store

Windham Life and Times October 4, 2024

Henry’s Variety was located on the corner of Rt. 111 and Rt. 111A. This photograph shows the store with gas pumps, Stoney’s Drive-In and the overnight cabins that they rented on Range Road. The store was first operated by Frank and Helen Bradley. Apparently, they often hit the sauce and customers would walk-in on a battle royal between Frank and Helen, with raw eggs slung at each other, flying through the air. This later became Ray Barlow’s. Windham Country Store, where over coffee and donuts the locals in the side room would argue and cajole about local politics.  https://vintageaerial.com/photos/new-hampshire/rockingham/1966/PRO/77/23
 

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The John Cochran Farm

Windham Life and Times – September 28, 2024

 This property is located on the discontinued potion of Governor Dinsmoor Road  that ran from Searles Road to Roulston Road. It is the Windham Woods School property today and the house has been demolished. I remember driving by this property in a car when I was young. Coles Granite Quarry is located on the property and it was the John Cochran farm in the 1700’s. The photo is from 1966.  https://vintageaerial.com/photos/new-hampshire/rockingham/1966/PRO/76/5
 

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The Carr-Lamson Farm

Windham Life and Times – September 14. 2024

 This photograph from 1966 shows the Carr Farm as it appeared in 1966 when owned by Louise Jackson. It had been a show farm when owned by the Lamson family who were the inventors of the cash carrying system in department stores at the end of the nineteenth century.  It was originally owned by John and Sally Carr. It is the location of the Car Hill Subdivision today and the house has been demolished. https://vintageaerial.com/photos/new-hampshire/rockingham/1966/PRO/74/