Tracy Farms
Jesse and Charles Tracy spray fruit trees, apricots, cherries, and apples on one of their family’s farms in Bachman’s Valley.
circa 1930s. Mary Noble Tracy stands by the pond on Tracy Farm. The family harvested ice from the pond in the winter and stored it with sawdust in an icehouse.
circa 1920s. A team of horses pulls a bobsled on Tracy Farm.
circa 1920s. Mary Noble Tracy sits on a white horse while Letilda Trone Tracy opens the gate on Tracy farm.
Brothers Jesse and George Tracy thresh wheat on a Tracy Farm in Bachmans Valley. Neighbors and relatives came by to help the brothers, and fellow farmers would often lend each other farm equipment.
The back view from Tracy Farm, leading to Melrose.
George Tracy and Paul Wine, a seed corn salesman, are pictured here evaluating the crop. Tracy would later receive an award for outstanding crop production in the late 1960s.
1939. George Tracy rides the Farmall tractor that he bought with money given to him by the government for serving in the army in WWI. Fred Brown, a cousin of the family, came to work on the farm and is pictured on the back of the tractor.
circa 1940. Fred Brown, a relative of George and Lela Tracy, sits on a wheat binder.
