Beautiful West Stockholm, NY - Part 1

It was brutally cold, about 0 F (-18 C), as well as cloudy and snowing lightly, but I nevertheless decided to return to the picturesque hamlet of West Stockholm, NY. There isn't much to it, but I remembered it as particularly pretty:

Here's the Google Earth View, which you can reference if you would like to trace my driving route during these three posts:

I drove in from the north on County Route 57, also called W.Stockholm-Southville Road, stopping and snapping photos as I went along:

West Stockholm is mostly forested, but there are still barns and farm fields which indicate that nearly everyone here once farmed in order to eat:

An old barn, to which a modern garage had been added:

A house in the woods, still decorated for Christmas:

This appeared to be a more modern house, but I was especially taken with the front porch and the thought of living in such a pleasant community:

All the snow made these Christmas decorations seem right at home:

There was a sizeable cemetery, evidence that West Stockholm may once have been more populated than it is now. Being located just east of Potsdam NY, it may also have been on the stage coach route:


This was only a small portion of the cemetery:

Many of the homes were farm style and may indeed have been farm houses when they were built:

There was a New England style church in the center of town, but I didn't see what denomination it was:

I remembered this place from my driving tour in 2013. It was a former school house, then for sale as a duplex. Apparently it was sold and the new owners had begun painting it when winter hit:

The most popular style of farm house in the area. But there was much more to see in West Stockholm, and I'll post Part 2 tomorrow: