E side ME 131, 0.5 mi. S of jct. with ME 173, Searsmont, Maine. County/parish: Waldo.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 17, 1994. NRIS 94000181.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing structure.
Hardscrabble Farm is a historic farm property in rural Searsmont, Maine, United States. Located south of its village center at 122 Maine State Route 131, the 70-acre (28 ha) property features a typical New England connected farmstead with a c. 1840s Greek Revival farmhouse. The property is notable as the leisure time summer residence of author Ben Ames Williams, who fictionalized Searsmont as the town of "Fraternity" in his works. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/88687387