Ancient Taylor-Bray Farm is like a time machine revealing a kaleidoscope of images. Geologists see land shaped by the Laurentide Glacier 25,000 years ago. Archaeologists have a time horizon that stretches back 10,000 years to the evidence left  behind by Native peoples, the first humans to call this piece of Yarmouth home. Historians see an outlier farm begun in the 1640s by Richard & Ruth Taylor in one of the earliest towns of Plymouth Colony. Modern day visitors might imagine scenes from all those periods or perhaps just enjoy a summer picnic with a scenic view of Black Flats marsh or new spring lambs.

Close your eyes and use your imagination to travel back to any point in the farm’s ten thousand years of documented human history to envision what it was like for a nomadic Native hunter searching for game, or a 17th century Plymouth Colony settler trying to scratch out a living, or three teenage boys about to become Revolutionary War soldiers, two of whom would see action at the Battles of Saratoga and Monmouth, and endure the brutal winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge or a wife shouldering the burden of caring for a large family while her mariner husband went to sea for months at a time.