Barns of the Dungeness Valley

Thought I was going crazy with this one. I was sure it was just north of Dungeness Valley Farm & Creamery, but when I went past it in the spring of 2005 it was missing. I finally confirmed the location by comparing photographs taken at the same time (matching treeline, cloud formations and cow-tails), but still couldn't find it. Then in the middle of winter, with all the leaves off the trees, I finally caught sight of it a bit further north than I had expected.

The barn was 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.

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.

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With cows (Click here to enlarge picture)	(Click here to enlarge picture)

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