In 1913, plans were made to accommodate a New Church farming family from Maryland on that farm, to enable the family’s children to attend Church schools. Sylvanus Alonso Powell, agreed to rent the farm for a one-year trial from the Academy while his…
Cairnwood Dairy operated from c. 1895 until 1948. In the early days, milk was delivered by means of horse-drawn wagon. It is known that at least two dairy wagons were used, but not if they were used concurrently or consecutively. Dairy Wagon #1…
Digital image taken circa 1920 of Cairnwood Dairy Wagon #2 and long-time dairyman Joseph P. Conard. This wagon no longer exists. Joseph Conard worked the Cairnwood Dairy beginning about 1914 and didn't retire until 1948, the dairy closing soon…
Photograph of Cairnwood & Farms taken from the tower of Glencairn. The photo is c. 1940 judging from the lack of residential buildings in the background. The Cairnwood Dairy barn (with the two grain silos) can be seen in the background.
2011_11_04_0001 Photo of Cairnwood Dairy's dairyman, Joseph Conard in the doorway of the "milkhouse." He is handling a 20 gallon mik can that has come down the "trolley" wire from the cow barn.
Joseph P. Conard, Cairnwood Farms' main dairyman from about 1914 until the diary closed in 1948, poses with a calf outside Cairnwood's diary barn. The milk house and the delivery truck (a 1935 International) are visible in the background.