Susan, I guess if it were your gggg-grandfathers house you would care. I think it has a lot to do with genealogy. Why do people think this site is only about genealogy when it's about their own ancestors? Why should the state burn down something they just paid a half a million for? Besides, anyone who would want to burn down a house built over 150 years ago, isn't much of a genealogist anyway. Did terrible things happen is that house? Well, enough people have been told that by the so-called historians of Gallatin County, but it is true? I for one would like to see the evidence.