These Guernsey cows descended from a herd introduced to Mainstone Farm, Wayland, in the 1880s by its then owner, Mr. Perkins. The Guernsey herd was the first one to be introduced in Massachusetts and the second of its kind in the United States.
Collection
W. H. Folsom Shoebox Collection
Acquisition
Notes
(these were discovered in an old shoe box in the closet off the Stone Room, next to Willie’s shed in 1983)