Barn # 11 Cassidy/Mapes Barn
Dungeness
West side of Towne Road, south of the schoolhouse
The barn was said to have been built by Frank Cassidy in the late 1890s, and passed to Jacob Mapes a few years later. It stayed in the Mapes family until about 1975. In 1926 lettuce was grown here which sold in Chicago for $7 per crate.
I am somewhat suspicious of Harriet Fish's attribution of this barn to Frank Cassidy, since the only census records I have found for Franks in the area have him born between 1890 and 1901. More likely the place was built by his father Morton Buxton Cassidy (d:1922) , and was simply in his (Frank's) possession at the time it passed to Mapes.
The barn is now in danger of being torn down, as part of the Dungeness River restoration project (see its neighbor to the north). The two houses which used to sit in front of the barn have already been demolished.
 With cows (Click here to enlarge picture) |
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 Front house coming down (Click here to enlarge picture) |
 Interior of the east side of the barn (Click here to enlarge picture) |
 Silo and front of barn, in the rain (Click here to enlarge picture) |
 Interior of the west side of the barn (Click here to enlarge picture) |
 Milk house on the east side of the barn (Click here to enlarge picture) |
