Maple Valley Farm Photo Album

In 1940, Marion Post Walcott came to the Woodstock area as part of the Farm Security Administration’s project to document rural life. One of the stops on her visit to the area was to the Shurtleff farm on the North Bridgewater Road. At the time, sugaring was in progress. The photos that Marion took while visiting the farm were later archived in the Library of Congress. They document a time of how maple syrup was made before inventions such as pipeline and reverse osmosis machines.

In addition to the sugaring photographs taken by Marion Post Walcott, we’ve included a number of other photos taken from family albums that show the changes in farm life over the past century.