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    Richard Prouty House, Edmunds, Maine

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    Richard Prouty House, South Edmunds Road, Edmunds, Maine. Mr. Prouty was a poultry farmer, for many years. His farming over the years started with free range and two two-story hen houses with chickens loose in two large pens per floor and ended with a modern long one-story cage house.

    Chicken barns, commonly called "hen pens", produced eggs for market. They were sustained by the arrival of low cost feed brought by rail to the Dennysville station. Small hatcheries also provided a ready supply of chicks. The cement foundation remains for this long, building across the road from Dick Prouty's house, while he maintained several smaller hen pens behind his house.

    Richard Prouty House, Edmunds, Maine
    Rear view of the Prouty house with ell and barn; Photo taken from the hill where the earlier hen houses stood. Richard (Dick) Prouty c. Early 1990's; Picture taken at Brown's Store, Dennysville, Maine. Dick was a very active member of the Dennysville Voluntary Fire Department and Ambulance Service. Site of