It is likely that the house at 320 Baileyville Road in Middlefield was erected c. 1755. It is thought to have been built for William Ward IV, a farmer (although he was born in 1767). In the 1740s, Ward’s father, William Ward III (also known as William Ward, Jr.), built a nearly identical house nearby, at 137 Powder Hill Road. In 1862, William Ward IV’s heirs sold the house on Baileyville Road to James O. Ross. The house is now part of Country Flower Farms.
William Ward IV House (1755)