Dana Parker Carter Farm.
The house and barn were likely constructed as early as the 1870s by Robert Cascaden, who is shown on the 1874 atlas as owning the property. In 1870, Cascaden lived on the property with his wife, Evelin, and their four children: Archibald, Jacob, Caroline, and Gertrude. Robert worked in a saw mill, possibly Benjamin Henderson's saw mill located on the parcel immediately to the west.

Dana Parker Carter (my 3rd great grandfather) married Eliza Firman in 1873 and likely purchased the property from Cascaden a few years later. The 1880 census records Carter's household a few lines down from Benjamin Henderson's household, so the Carter family was living on this property by that time.

Dana and Eliza Carter lived on this property with their children Florence, Lavant, Norman, William (my 2nd great-grandfather), John, Mintha, Clyde, and Lorenzo. Later, they also briefly raised their grandson Sanford White Carter (William Firman Carter's son) on this property after his mother died in childbirth.

Morbid Bit of Info: Dana Parker Carter hung himself in that barn on the property in 1911. I'm not sure how long Eliza M. Carter or their grandson remained on the property. She's recorded as the owner of the property on the 1915 atlas, but by 1920, Eliza Carter was living at the Michigan Home and Training School in Lapeer. She likely was admitted due to her age, but she was lucid enough to be employed as a night attendant. She died a month later. The property remained in her estate until at least 1921.