Photo 83-AKE-35

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West Tobey Road, South China, ME. Both homes, and most of the structures pictured here still stand today. The closer home, 11 West Tobey Road, has since added a front porch (facing the home across the way) and a pitched-roof addition off the rear closest to the photographer. Windows have been added to the first floor facing left in this photograph, and now has bright blue shutters. The gable and gambrel-roofed outbuildings/barns still stand today - the gable roof appears much the same, though the gambrel-roofed barn has added a pitched-roof addition to the rear and back towards the tractor in this photograph.

I'm not sure on the address of the cape-style home across the way, though it now has a mudroom/entryway built where the front door is here. It appears the rearmost shed on this property may still exist, but I can not confirm. The garden rows around this home are now gone, and the lot is wooded.

Just behind the longer garden rows is now Hannaford Drive, which leads to the South China Hannaford store, which was built in the large field at the top of the photograph.

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