They dug water and sewer line connections to the municipal system by hand and built common bathrooms and showers. Initially, the facilities were placed in the basement of the farmhouse, but soon the creamery located behind the house was converted for the purpose with separate facilities for men and women. The area of these early facilities is now occupied by some of the park's older trailers along Avenue A. James Farrington, then a teenager recalls:

The wash house was in the old creamery. At first the facilities were in the cellar of the house. There were men's and women's showers and there was a place to empty their slop pails every morning and night. I remember all the men lining up in their bathrobes, with towels and they would wait for the showers at night.³⁰

Though the occasional camper still used the Farrington park, this small permanent community grew during the war years. 31 It was actually the first subdivision on North Avenue, and as James Farrington put it the new park was "a city inside a city. ³² By 1945 Farrington's Trailer Park had roughly 15 trailers grouped around the farmhouse and outbuildings.

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