Stull Farm
circa 1980. Gilbert Stein shares a Pepsi with his bull, Junior, who loved Pepsi but would not drink Coke.
circa 1920s. Every fall, the Stull family butchered hogs, preserving the meat by brining it or putting it in their smokehouse.
Byron Stull and his hired help Jackie, load wheat after it had gone through the threshing machine.
After being threshed, the wheat would be taken to one of the many mills dotting the Carroll County
landscape- there were so many because it was important for a farmer to be in close proximity to a mill.
circa 1925. Neighbors, relatives, and community members help raise Peter Wilhide’s barn in Keysville.
Farm women developed special recipes to feed the many people who helped raise farm buildings.
circa 1920s. Grier Keilholtz rides a binder on his farm on Keysville Frederick County Road, one of the first of its kind in the area. The tractor was used to both cut the wheat and bind it.
Rosella Hess Stull hoes the family truck patch garden, which grew herbs cabbage, and lettuce for canning.
Rosella Hess Stull and sister Henrietta Hess Koontz pose for a photograph beside a huge haystack on the Stull farm in Keysville.
circa 1921. Bill Sell and little cousin Mildred Stull show off their catches on after a fishing trip to the Monocacy
River behind the family home.
1922. a young Mildred Stull swims in the Monocacy River behind her home in Keysville. The river flooded as high as 65” in the basement of the house in 1972, eventually flooding the house three times in four years.
Farm children in Keysville used school buses like this one to get to their one-room school until 6th grade.
circa 1922. Mr. Brown, Mildred Stine, Mrs. Brown, and an unidentified young lady picks strawberries on the Brown family farm on Harney Road. The berries would be baked into pies or made into jams and jellies to be preserved throughout the winter.
