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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Historic Businesses of the
Tri-Counties
Local Business History Section
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Joyce's Search Tip - January 2008
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Do You Know that you can search just the
Business
pages of the site by using the Business button in the
Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the Current
What's New Page? You will also find extensive business information
in the Directory section. |
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In the early 1960s, Troy Gazette-Register ran a series of
articles called Mystery Farms. Each week they presented a photo and asked
readers to identify the farm. In the following week's issue, they identified
the farm and wrote a brief article about it. Marjorie JORALEMON Oldroyd,
now of Austinville, saved them all in a scrapbook which we scanned recently.
I will present them here, sorted by township where possible. In some cases
the Post Office is the only identifier and it may or may not be accurate
as to physical location.
Return to table of Contents
for all farms listed.
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File: tgrfarm0005 – Ralph Packard
Well, it is the Ralph Packard farm at Windfall, southeast of Cowley
Station.
That farm has been in the Packard family for four generations.
Three Packard brothers, Joel, William and Silas traveled from Connecticut
many years ago and settled in Bradford County. Joel located on the
site that is now occupied by Ralph and his son, Robert. It is an
interesting note that Silas Packard settled on the land that is now owned
by Earl Seeley on Route 14, between Troy and Alba.
Ralph Packard, who has his post office address at Granville Summit,
has had the farm for the past 42 years. Today, he does not farm the
property, his son, Robert, taking the active part in tending a Holstein
dairy and cultivating with corn, oats and hay 50 of the 137 acres of land. |
Robert has always worked on the farm, helping his father, but in 1953 he
became part owner of the farm as his father could no longer take an active
part in farming chores. About five years ago an addition to the farm two-story
home was made when an apartment was built for Robert, his wife, Mary Lou,
and their five-year old daughter, Donna.
Ralph Packard married Irene Packard, daughter of Lewis Packard who lived
on the farm site now occupied by Mr. Seeley on Oct. 22, 1913. There
were seven children, Grace Fulmer of Dushore, Donald of Granville Summit,
Helen Fleming of Granville Summit, Anna Hafflett of Granville Summit, Rhea
Lutomski of Elmira, Lewis of Granville Summit and Robert of Windfall.
Mr. Packard belongs to the Holstein-Friesian Association of Harrisburg
and to the Bradford County Farmers’ Association. Both he and his
wife are members of the Windfall Methodist Church.
The Packard farmsite, according to Ralph Packard, was first owned by
Joel, then by Jerome, next by William B. and lastly by Ralph, himself.
Those identifying the farm are Don Bruce, Russell Scott, Ray Lyons,
Earl Rolison, Besse Secules, Richard Lyons and Gerald Warner of Troy; Arthur
Shoemaker and Eugene Rockwell of Granville Summitt; John Weatherbee and
Wilbur Morris of Canton; Harold Warner, Harry Packard and Robert Whitlock
of Sylvania.
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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