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The first owner of the 165-acre Roberts Farm property was Dudley Pike.  He purchased the land in 1787.  The land was transferred to his son, Henry Pike, in 1818.  Henry’s daughter, Carrie Pike, married John Roberts and John managed the property and developed it into a highly successful dairy farm that turned out many products including one hundred pounds of butter each week.


Thaddeus Roberts, the son of Henry and Carrie, farmed the land until 1968.  John A. Roberts Jr. sold the original farmhouse in the 1970’s, but held onto the land.  The land was eventually purchased by the Growth Council of the Oxford Hills with a plan to develop a technological park.  When those plans fell through, the Western Foothills Land Trust stepped forward to purchase the land in 2007, and conserve it for the future.  They were able to purchase the original homestead in 2009.


Photo courtesy of Western Foothills Land Trust’s website : wfltmaine.org

Photo courtesy of Western Foothills Land Trust’s website : wfltmaine.org

Photo courtesy of Western Foothills Land Trust’s website : wfltmaine.org

Photo courtesy of Western Foothills Land Trust’s website : wfltmaine.org

Photo courtesy of Western Foothills Land Trust’s website : wfltmaine.org

Photo courtesy of Western Foothills Land Trust’s website : wfltmaine.org