There has been an ice cream shop at 131 Gorham Street in Chelmsford since the late 1950’s.  Before that time, the land was used as farmland and as a small farm stand for the Finnick family of Chelmsford who owned the property since the late 1800’s.

The Finnick House still stands on the property today at the top of the hill.

Finnick House – circa 1899

The following is a history of the various incarnations the ice cream shop went through since being built.

 

Year	Name of Stand	Owners	Comment
1957	Firth Farms	Tom & Clifford Firth	(brothers who built the stand and ran a turkey farm on the property)
1959	Pine Valley Farm	Lavoie’s Dairy of Lowell	(milk plant on Wilder St, Lowell)
1962	Crowley Farm	Crowley Family of Tewksbury
Spring 1973	Little Maggie’s	Cavanaugh family of Tewksbury
Aug 9, 1973	Gary’s Ice Cream	Gary Frascarelli	(Passed on the formulas that defined the business!  – Single owner for 48 seasons)
Mar 1, 2021	Chelmsford Creamery	Gary passed the business on to 3 employees when he retired at the end of the 2020 Season

 This would make 131 Gorham St. the oldest ice cream shop still operating
in Chelmsford and one of the oldest in the Merrimack Valley .