Dickinson Center, New York - Part 3

I continued my driving tour of Dickinson Center and passed this old church - or had it been a school house? The windows were boarded up, so apparently it was no longer used at all:

And more attractive country homes set back in the pines:

And a similar home with comfortable chairs on comfortable porches from which to watch nature and the occasional car drive by:

There was no real business district, but I did stop at the DC Mini Mart (DC, I assumed, stood for Dickinson Center). In spite of the big "Open" flag, however, it wasn't. The screen door was open and swinging in the wind:

This old farm house probably had a barn out back at one time:

This house still had its barn, albeit a small one:

And someone had built a rather big, fancy, modern home - which helped confirm my belief that Dickinson Center had become a bedroom town for people with good paying jobs in Malone, people who enjoy gracious country living:

Dickinson Center is a hamlet inside the town of Dickinson, and I passed by the town offices and highway garage:

I came to a section of open farm fields atop a hill from which I could see so far that I guessed I was seeing Canada off in the distance:

I began passing real, old fashioned working farms:

It appeared that an Amish family or two owned those hilltop farms. This garage/barn had two Amish buggies, one inside and one with a horse all harnessed in place waiting just outside the door:

And my last photo was of an Amish horse in a field atop the hill standing by old, abandoned farm equipment which had apparently been abandoned there before the Amish bought the farm. But I'd had a long day and old Winky and Wally were waiting for me back home. So I turned the car in that direction and headed back home to spend the night: