Book Synopsis
Join me, as we look through 205 pictures of documentation of Columbus’ Historic Dingee Farm. The home was constructed for the first owner and founder of the farm, Thomas Smith, in 1861. The barns and other outbuildings themselves came later, during the early 20th Century, when the Farm was under ownership of Edwin and Clarendon Roys. The farm itself changed names, and owners multiple times throughout its long life, but is today remembered as The Dingee Farm, in order of its final owners John and Doris Dingee. Despite the fact that the property was historically significant from not only a culture standpoint to the community’s history, as-well as from an architectural standpoint of the today, much rarer barn constructions that it boasted, City Officials voted to demolish it for a housing development, despite the majority will of the citizens, who wanted it preserved and restored.