The Dyer-Hutchinson farm is one of the few eighteenth-century farms still in active use. The farmhouse, a one-story Federal period cape, was built by William Dyer in the western part of Cape Elizabeth. The property served as his homestead, where he and his wife raised two children and owned forty-five acres of land, twenty of which were used for farming. The farm property passed from the Dyer family's possession in 1864, but it remained in use over the ensuing decades for agriculture, even expanding its operations with a small wooden box manufacturing operation in a twentieth-century building on-site.
Year listed: 1997
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