Tucker Farm Historic District

Tucker Farm is a 57-acre agricultural district on Tucker Road in northern Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Stone walls define its fields, where alfalfa, hay and winter rye are grown alongside pasture. A residential and barnyard area holds two wood-shingled houses, one from about 1720 and one from about 1809, plus a ca. 1850 barn, a carriage house from about 1800 and smaller sheds. The older house has post-and-beam framing and an ell that likely sits on the site of Henry Tucker's stone house. The Federal-style house grew from a three-bay core to five bays in 1830, with rear additions later in the century. The land traces to Henry Tucker, a Quaker who bought a share of Dartmouth in 1669, and his descendants still own it. The farm is recognized as an intact example of Dartmouth's dispersed agricultural settlement, with notable early architecture and a largely unchanged landscape.