Well, I don't know the history of the house specifically, but of the town - it's a mill town. The paper mill was built, in the middle of nowhere, and then a town was built to house the mill workers. Most of the town is row after parallel row of houses, all built at about the same time. (The "new" section of town is a development of small 1950s ranches... and yes, most residents still refer to it as the "new development", heh.)
The mill is barely operational now - most paper mills up here have closed - hence the dropping real estate prices. But regardless, I have a clear view of the aging mill from my back deck.
I bet you're right about the hardwood floors. And I bet there was a horsehair couch, and irons on the stairs, and a woodstove once upon a time. That addition on the right was *definitely* pretty new - we think it was a garage, but before that, it may have been a woodshed (it's on the kitchen side, and yep, the kitchen's on the back). But a farm house? Probably not.  Which is ok. I still want to find out more about its history, and I'm going to try to do so once we get settled.
Alas, no goodies in the attic or basement... believe it or not, we checked the day we looked at the place!
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