received this from a cousin who lives up that way and I figured would know about it: Joanne, Yes I do know this area. My family also used to picnic there especially in the 60's to 70's. About 45 years ago when I was 12 after our cook-out we hiked up the road as there was activity going on. When we got to the top there was a gently rolling meadow (badly in need of haying) with an old abandoned farmhouse and a group maybe 5 to 10 people in their 20's. They were so excited they had just bought it & told us to look around. In the 60's Montgomery had many small neglected farms( around 1962 you could no longer use the large milk cans to store milk-so either you had to quit farming or convert to electric cooling milk tanks) & was a hotbed of hippie communes. I think the stone buildings were built by them. The guns were probably to scare off people in order to protect the fancy weed they were growing. I remember so clearly going into the farmhouse & feeling uneasy, like a past spirit was there. This memory has always spooked me. I believe from comparing the 1871 Beers Map that was Philo Lanphere's place & the road North of it currently called Highland Spring Road is where our Uncles Samuel & William Eldred &cousin Anson Eldred lived & Uncle Clark Eldred later moved to. There was also 3 other Eldreds & a Tracy lived at the base the main Road. -- Joanne Saltman Belchertown, MA