Wells Maine # 3
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
Wells Maine # 3
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Not until 1717 was the farm reoccupied, this time by Nathaniel Clark, Jr. For 150 years, Clark and his heirs ran a prosperous agricultural operation and made many improvements to Farm Hill. The Clark era ended with the estates sale to George C. Lord, President of the Boston & Maine Railroad, in 1881.
Lord acquired the property as a summer retreat near his boyhood home in Kennebunk, but his son Robert had keen agricultural interests. Robert imported purebred Guernseys in 1892 and soon thereafter assumed ownership of the farm. His brother Charles followed him in 1908, naming the site �Laudholm Farms.� A few years later, Charles�s son George was entrusted with the farming operation.
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June 12th, 2015
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