Countrybrook Farms

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Acquired by the Kashulines family in 1906, the property consisting of over 200 hundred acres, was primarily a dairy operation through the mid-fifties. In the early sixties, the land that sprawled from the house and barn to the shores of the Merrimack river and south to Green Meadow Golf Course, was used to grow produce. This marked the beginning of what many locals remember as Kashulines farm stand. In the mid-seventies development saw most of the land sold off which today is the Executive Drive Industrial Park. The farm stand remained in operation until the mid-nineties while the barn and the remaining acreage were used mostly for storage and dumping. Countrybrook Farms, consists of the house originally built in 1765, the barn built in 1846 and the remaining 7.5 acre piece of property. When Countrybrook Farms took over the property in 1997, the roadside farm stand was destroyed at the towns request, while additional parking was added to the front of the barn. The last bit of remaining farmland behind the barn was cleared of a tractor trailers worth of old tires and other debris. Owners Michelle & Jay Shattuck recall the hours of "sweat equity" put in those first couple of years. "We weren't able to occupy the barn our first year open, so our garden center was a 20'x 20' garage next to this big charming barn," recalls Michelle. Imagine generations of junk accumulating on the remaining acreage left behind for the next owners to deal with. "That was us!" chimes Jay. ...

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