A Town Called Plainfield
Lambert: The Sennitt’s Curious Dairy Barn
Downtown Plainfield builders are a testament to a family's innovative response to adversity.
The Inquiry A Plainfield Patch reader inquired, “What are those small buildings that were recently painted white near the Plainfield Historical Society’s depot at Lockport and Wood Farm Road?” The Facts Acquired for preservation by the Plainfield Historical Society, the two concrete structures that stand today are remnants of a local family’s tenacity and innovation in the wake of a weakened economy and scientific advancement. The unassuming buildings are remnants of the small dairy complex operated by Charles Sennitt and his sister, May, for three decades in the early 20th Century. Originally, the Sennitt’s dairy operation included a dairy barn, milkhouse, corncrib and silo adjacent to a fenced-in pasture. The original farm buildings …
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Joel Craig
10:09 am on Friday, November 30, 2012
Maybe we can entice Don and his video cam out of retirement, eh? Some other things we've discussed are self-guided history tours with accompanying materials, and possibly even creating a podcast that folks can carry around on their iPhone/iPod with directions and short histories of the various places in town. The downtown tours that are a part of the 3rd Grade local history curriculum that the … more ›