Learn more. HARTFORD — Fire destroyed the Main Street farmhouse and barn of town historian Lorraine Parsons on Wednesday while she was tending her cows. “In the three minutes that it took us ...

“So it (the Sheep Barn) will look great for 2025,” Parsons said. Cownie said the restoration effort on livestock barns was kickstarted by a $5 million donation from the Jacobson Foundation and ...

The blaze was beside the Parsons Barn in Frobisher Way but the flames were already out when the crews arrived. But a joint Police and Fire Service investigation will be carried out to establish ...

said Parsons. " Instead, we see the proliferation of the much easier to build and maintain pole barn." Though many barns have disappeared over the past 50 years, Sussex County still has a number ...

The cause is undetermined at this time.” Parsons said the fire, reported around 1:15 p.m., started on the barn’s first floor. Officers with the state fire marshal’s office were en route to ...

A horse, cows, pigs, goats, chickens and geese filled the barn, the chicken coop and the pigsty which was built out of unpeeled logs. And there were always cats and dogs for the Parsons children ...