You all know I hike the berm of RT 125 east,or west, 2-5 times daily.\ Westbound,I often turn just past an old 2 story Federal brick now owned by the Butch Loudon's. Previous,[1846] it was Johnson's, and then Mahlon Wilson's, and then Cliff Justice's,followed by Annabelle Justice m Ed Harris,and then Rosalee Harris m Hubert Douglass,whose will gave it to Miami,of Ohio,U,WHO SOLD to the Loudon's. When asked,I said the Johnson's built it. [Amanda Justice's 1846-48 diary has the Johnson's living there. But,Sat night,my grand dau thru a Halloween party,including her lifelong best friend, Holly Harris,and her dad,Mike,and grandmother,Janette Harris. And Mike told me the house was built in 1825,and the one one the Pinkham farm,1826. 1825 was too early forv the Johnson's. They did not pay property tax here in Tate township in 1826. So,I just studied the 1826 tax list,and studied those in Waters Va Military Survey,and am guessing,of those possible,that it was my own ship's carpenter, James Blackman,who built it. 1824 James Blackman's young twin daughter married Savil Justice,of Jesse,of this farm. The Loudoun's old Federal brick sits very near the north side of RT 125,3 MILES WEST OF Bethel,Clermont Co,Ohio. James Blackman,in 1815,joined his sister and husband,the 1803 REV JOHN COLLINS,at Elk Lick. He built,1815-25 the old portion of 'the Elk Lick House-moved to Sharon Woods,ne Cincinnati,when Lake Harsha was flooded. James Blackman also built Old Bethel Methodist,in East Fork State park. Then,in the late 1820's he moved to Cincinnati's downtown,and was class leader of 5th street's former Wesleyian Methodist-UNDER P@G's twin towers. 1850 cholera drove him near his daughter's at Reading-Lockland,Ohio