Midridge Farm (Exteriors)

Midridge Farms in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, circa 1954.

The Spragues’ Dairy Farm in Hillsboro, New Hampshire

By the start of the 1950s, Raymond A. Sprague was looking for an alternative career. Following in his father’s footsteps, he had worked on Wall Street for roughly a decade, but hadn’t developed the same love for the work. He and wife Rosemary began the search for a dairy farm in New England, and eventually purchased Midridge Farms in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. Ray raised Holsteins and ran the farm as a working dairy until deciding to disperse the herd in the late 1960s. He and Rosemary retired to a new home they built on some of the farm’s pasture land, where local farmers continued to summer their herds up through the 1990s.

Below are some exterior images of Midridge Farms, as it looked around the time the Spragues purchased it in 1952 (click to enlarge).