Goodnoe Farm & Dairy Bar

The original structure on this property was likely built about 1725 as early settler William Buckman’s cabin. In 1918, John Goodnoe purchased the seventy-eight acre farm at 298 North Sycamore Street and began delivering produce grown there. In 1920, he and his wife Mabel established Goodnoe Farm Dairy, delivering fresh milk, eggs, butter, and cream until the 1960s, while also raising their own feed and stock on the farm. In 1946, their son Raymond Goodnoe and his wife Lorraine took over the farm and tripled the volume of milk previously sold. Soon afterward, he added a plant for pasteurizing and homogenizing milk, which later became the plant where they made more than thirty-eight flavors of their own ice cream. In 1955, Raymond Goodnoe relocated the Toll House and established the Goodnoe Farm Dairy Bar restaurant on the corner of Routes 413 and 532. Over the succeeding years, the restaurant grew into a family establishment known and loved by generations and became a local landmark. Raymond Jr., “Skip,” continued the tradition of homemade food and ice cream from 1973 until the landmark closed in 2006.

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