The Sherman Family Homestead

This aerial photo of the Sherman Homestead was taken in 1959.

This property came into the family about 1902 - 1910, when it was
settled by Schuyler Van Unsler Sherman.

When he died in 1924, the farm was sold to his second son, Schuyler (Manville) Sherman, 
who sold it in 1930 to his brother, William Crandall Sherman.
The eldest son, Ralph, had purchased a piece of property just a 
couple of miles further down (to the right) on East Afton Road.

Sherman Hill Road is the tree-lined road going up the hill to the 
right.  East Afton Road meanders across the bottom/front of the photo 
and proceeds off to the left, going out to North Sanford Road.

The near (lower) house was moved onto the property by Charles
and Wilford; it had formerly been a schoolhouse.  This piece
of land, across East Afton Road from the original house, is no 
longer part of the remaining homestead in 2010.

The original house is shown further up and in the center of
the photo.  The barn is at center right, with the chicken coop
just above and behind it.  The barn burned down years ago and
was never rebuilt.

All of these people were born in this house:

  1926 Ruth Esther Sherman
  1929 Manville (John) Sherman

  1931 Wilford Allen Sherman
  1935 Charles Stewart Sherman
  1938 Nancy Irene Sherman
  
In 2010 Charles Stewart Sherman and Marcia Joan Miller Sherman
live in the original house, the same house that Charles was 
born in, back in 1935.  Two of their children, David and Chuck,
live on properties that were split off from the original homestead.

Here are two more photos of the Homestead, taken in 2006:









This scanned image shows the hand-written notes found on the back 
of the 1959 photo, which was made into a postcard: