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Jericho Corners from Pump Road
(about 1890)
On the left is the Simon Davis house, which was later owned by H.M.
Field, Anson Field and R.B. Field. Simon Davis established a sawmill and a
factory for making wooden water pumps and tubing at an early date, and
this was later expanded by he and his son-in-law, Henry Field about 1856,
and upplied a wide territory in New England until about 1900, when iron
pumps took their place. In 1932, the house was purchased by Horatio and
Adelaide Curtis, who established a mink ranch with two females and one
male. By 1937, they had over 500 mink, and had 1000 mink when they ended
their business in 1947.
In the distance can be seen, from the left, the
so-called Day House, built by Henry Field in the mid-1870’s, later owned
for about 50 years by the Buel Day family, and later sold to Matthew
DeGroot. Just to the right of that is the spire of the Congregational
Church; further to the right is the Methodist Church, the water tower, and
the Jericho Elementary School, now the Jericho town
offices.
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