| His son, George Farrington, Jr. helped his father run the
farm. In addition, he took a job in the textile mills in nearby Winooski.
According to his son James, after the great flood of 1927, George Farrington,
Jr. worked only at the family farm. By this time the dairy herd had been
sold and the land was used for vegetable gardens. |
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George Farrington, his wife Claribel and son James
c. 1928. Farrington family photograph. |
| He also started a nursery in the late 1920s,5 building
two large greenhouses and eventually a florist shop next door to the farmhouse.
By the early 1920s the Farringtons also had occasional campers who used
the nearby farm fields for campsites during the summer months. 6 |
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Farrington House at 1106 North Avenue, 1990. Phinney. |