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    Zenas Wilder's Barn, Dennysville, Maine

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    Zenas Wilder's barn is located on Cemetery Road in Dennysville, Maine. It was built next to his house and blacksmith on Shop Hill, one of the oldest structures in the community.

    One of the first frame houses in Dennysville was built by Zenas Wilder, an uncle of Ebenezer C. Wilder, Sr. Zenas Wilder was a blacksmith who built his home and barn on the hill overlooking Lincoln's Pond, above Abner Gardner's property. It was occupied continuously by five generations of his descendants,--Zenas, Jr., Pyam, Frederick, Theodore, and Elizabeth (Wilder) Ward. Over the years a larger main house was added to the original structure, and a garage. The original barn, however, is unchanged and still in use.

    Zenas Wilder's Barn, Cemetery Road, Dennysville, Maine
    Zenas Wilder's Barn and fields, Dennysville, Maine Cemetery Road in Dennysville Maine 1881; Piam Wilder, a direct descendent of Zenas and Hannah Wilder, a blacksmith who settled on the Shop Hill, on the Colby Atlas map of Dennysville in 1881. Zenas Wilder's Gravestone in the Dennysville Town Cemetery Gravestone of Hannah, wife of Zenas Wilder, who died on March 25, 1874, in Dennysville, Maine. Lincoln Mills, Dennys River, from Edmunds, Maine; Zenas Wilder's house and barn are visible on the crest of Shop Hill in the distance, in this view of the mills on the Dennys River, c. 1900.