The old Churchill farm located in Becket State Forest on a very old road that dead ended at this large once thriving farm with great stone walls and many animal pens and a big barn. 
Charles O Perkins is shown as the owner of the farm in 1876 who sold the land to Timothy Keefe, in 1882. CH Churchill (1904) was owning the farm with Perkins living closer to present day Route 20.  Keefe, being a property tycoon buying up as much as he could in that era lived in the house across from Chester Historical on Route 20.  Keefe was interested in the land up at Churchill’s because it was rich with Granite and full of boulders, hence no use for the farmers Perkins and Churchill.  Old colonial Hilltown History at its best.

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