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An article "The Milkmaid and Reaper A Refutation of Kimball and Swan." by David M. McIntire
The Milkmaid and Reaper are two wooden statues that stood on the roof of the
Derby Summer House. The figures that are presently on the roof of the summer house
are reproductions. The Peabody Essex Museum has the original Milkmaid in
storage and the original Reaper is on the 2ndfloor of the mansion at Glen Magna
Farm. The summer house designed by Samuel McIntire for Elias Hasket
Derby and was builtin 1794 on the Derby Farm at the corner of Andover Streetand
Buttonwood Lane in South Danvers, Massachusetts (now Peabody). In 1901 Ellen
Peabody Endicott purchased the summer house.Mrs. Endicott had the summer house
moved 3.5 miles to her Glen Magna Farm. Glen Magna Farm is now owned by
the Danvers Historical Society.
Grace Batchelder Underwood; Kendall Osborn; Mehitable Whittemore; Richard Trask; Amos King; Salem, Massachusetts; Ebon Sutton; Sutton Mills; Benjamin Pickman;
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