Historic Dairy Farm on Stocked Trout Stream 157 acre dairy farm, 90 tillable acres. Historic 1860 stone barn, rebuilt in 1979. 108 stalls, 1500 gal bulk tank, with 3 water sources. Drilled well, spring with gravity, 1 acre pond and spring with separate lines located above the farm which provides gravity fed water. 1000 gal water storage tank for milk cooling, variable speed milk pump, total mixing ration system for feed. 800 ton bunk storage, enough room for 28,000 bales of hay, 4 silos, 6 stall garage, 6 stall equipment building, 2 houses, main house 1860 brick, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, in very good condition with an addition added in 1970 which has a family room and fireplace. 3 year old oil furnace, drilled well. Second house in fair condition has 4 bedrooms, 2 baths (1up, 1 down), and 10 year old furnace. There is over 8,000ââ¬â¢ of road frontage and over 1300ââ¬â¢ frontage on a year round trout stream, East Canada Creek. Price is $780,000 for all buildings and 157 acres. There is an additional 228 acres available. This farm has an extensive historic past. This farm was part of Beardslee Castle Estate. The Castle is not included. Beardslee Castle was built in the 1860s, its architecture copied from an Irish Castle, by Augustus Beardslee. Every stone used for the Castle was quarried right on the farm, and were hand cut by stonemasons brought over from Switzerland. The walls are 3' to 4' thick. No two native stones in the "Castle" are alike, yet this unique structure is of elegant design. It is recorded that the completion of the project was supervised by Capt. Guy Roosevelt Beardslee, who was born in the mansion. More than a mile of stone walls surrounded the park-like estate at its completion. Capt. Beardslee had intense yearnings to construct a Beardslee dam and power plant to furnish power and light not only for his own farms, but also for the Village of St. Johnsville. Several engineers from New York City planned to build a power plant on East Creak but did not have finances to develop it, so Guy Beardslee undertook this project himself. Wiring for electricity in the "castle" was completed by a man named Charles Cook. Mr. Beardslee then sought to sell power to nearby communities and was refused by Little Falls. Mr. Beardslee purchased a generator with a distribution system from a piano manufacturer in St. Johnsville and obtained a contract for street lights for the village, which was about 3 miles away. This transmission line was completed in 1898 and lights turned on in St. Johnsville on March 17, 1898. Mr. Beardslee was also a major stockholder in the New York Central Railroad, with his own railroad station at the Castle. He had his own personal covered walkway sheltering his path from the station to the Castle. Capt. Beardslee was married in Oswego, New York in 1895 to Miss Ethel Shriver, daughter of Harvey and Cornelia (Grant) Shriver, who came from an old Maryland family. They lived on a farm which was part of the John and Petrus Van Driesen patent, which had been in the family since 1790. The news of electricity for the castle spread quickly, and within a year many nearby farmers used this new form of energy on their farms. From this lowly beginning a small hydro-electric plant was built. This company, which was instigated by Beardslee, was succeeded by Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation.
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