County newspapers of the time pictured some of them. Just east of the saddle dam was "Daddy Joe" Bauman's. www.newsdemocrat.com has an obit of "Daddy Joe's son,WWII vet,83 year old Ralph Bauman. East of Daddy Joe's was the typical 2 story federal brick of Hitch>Mike Retzler. Across the East Fork in the hamlet of Elk Lick was Slade's and Jake Retzler's and a frame 2 story. N orth,on the Tate Beach was Rev John Collins 2 story stone-the oldest inhabited house in Ohio,and his son,the lawy er,Richard Collins mansion. Below the dam,at the spillway,was Dr Frank Mayfield's "Low Bridge Farm,and a 2 story L shaped early brick that was Husong's. Saw a Husong estate packet today.Ezekial SSlade,of the hill farm that became the dam,was excr. David White [?] old 2 story brick was Leaver's,with boy,Charlie Williams.It was just across Corker's Run from Old Bethel Methodist. At the corner of Williamsburg-Bantam, where Vernon Andrews lived,was a 2 story frame built by a man, Hughes[?] who had ties to the former slave McNair sisters,whose 2 story brick,with a porch was e ast towards Corkers .George and Ruth Ann Mattox Rooks live where George and Sylvia Wilson Slade's modern Cape Cod is. Just north of Bantam was a 2 story Ely brick,and a Smith 1 story frame Just strikes me that maybe Stanley Smith,on my bus,was a desc of Sippy Smith. I saw an old pictuire of Ely's store in Bantam,yesterday. Part of it was moved to the new Ohio Turnpike about 1850. Ely's store's Bantam Post Office pidgeon holes is in this room. 15 holes for seperating letters,and a bigger one for packages. Isaac Higbee's 1810 stone and Cornelius McCollum's 1810 stone went under Lake Harsha. Together,those men partnered in a saw and grist mill at what isd now the Tate boat ramp. Grant Snider made rifles there,and Carson Henderson played tricks on Olin Fagin's huckster wagon there. Samuel and Rachel Leeds Ely lived across the East Fork in a 2 story brick called "Ruffmong no 3 by the Harrisons. Riddle's and Steelman's lived up the hill road from twin Bridges. The Paul Emmitt's lived in a 2 story frame built by 2 of the deaf siblings of Samuel Ely. Sherman and Grace Mosbacker Rose lived across the road,in the no 3 frame Anti-Bantam schoolhouse,.and George and Leona Conn Musgrove lived towards the bridges. George's mother,Mrs James Musgrove,and sister,Mrs Earl [Hilda] Johnson, were 2 of Clermont's most active DAR ladies copying tombstones. Leona's dad, Jim Conn followed Abe Moss,as gravedigger for Old Bethel cemetary. Goldie Moss [Morss] m Dale Ely,before he wed Jessie Butler. Jessie's sister was married to teacher, Clarence C Mattox,trap-shooting expert.They lived next to Bill Planck,who lived in the 2nd,and brick,Anti-BaNTAM schoolhouse,where my grandmother,Ruie Ely Brown,started teaching school about 1873. Mrs Puterbaugh adjoined. Above is the northern and western section of the l;ake,and park,or ju st adjoining the park.