Got milk? Heading home at the evening bell, these Curtiss farm cows meander along the road from Tobey Pond, now known as Golf Drive, in an early 20th-century photograph by Marie Kendall. The Curtiss homestead was built by Solomon Curtiss in 1786 on the corner of Mountain Road and Sunset Ridge and remained in the Curtiss family until the 1960’s. The farm was one of many established by the early settlers of Norfolk, when almost every family had a farm for its own use. Some sold their products as well. In later years, dairy farms delivered milk throughout town in glass bottles labeled with the farm name. Summer residents, such as the Spoffords of New York, even had milk delivered from Norfolk to their homes in the city in personalized cans tyo be returned and replenished each week.

—Ann Havemeyer

Photo courtesy of the Norfolk Historical Society.