Southwick-Daniels Farm

Set on high ground beside Mendon Street in upland Blackstone, this 112-acre farm has stayed in one family since Seth Southwick bought the property in 1793. The house combines a small ca. 1750 dwelling, now a side ell, with a five-bay, two-and-one-half-story Greek Revival main block from about 1830. Around it are a ca. 1850 barn, a ca. 1870 cider mill, a henhouse, corncrib, wellhouses, a cistern, granite gate posts, and a stone drinking trough carved in the 1860s by local mason Daniel Simmons. Stone walls divide fields that still produce hay, and remnants of apple and peach orchards survive. The farm was listed because it is the best preserved working farm complex in Blackstone, illustrating agricultural development from about 1750 to 1945, and because the house and outbuildings retain their original character. The nomination also notes strong potential for archaeological remains from early settlement.