Hello Debbie I am so happy you wrote, and there is some one you may like to talk to he is Edia SILVIA, and is a descendant of the BROOKS family and has helped me in the past, I am going ot copy/paste your reply to our PAFOREST mail list at rootsweb, you may want to get on It is for the Warren Co area, PAFOREST-L-request@rootsweb.com subscribe in the body of the letter. to POST email to PAFOREST-L@rootsweb.com I am sad to say that this home is now open to the elements and animals, porches fallen in,etc. and it's really a sad shame. I knew it must have been once wonderful inside, and could be so again. Here is Debbies reply to the CLOUGH family farm/ Spring Creek; The CLOUGH farm in Warren County belonged to my family. My grandfather, Levi Smythe CLOUGH raised prize show cattle (Ayreshire) on the farm. The barns were once well known as the largest in PA - until the Hershey barns were built - you might be able to date them that way. One was a horse barn and one was a cow barn. Don't know the year they were built - or the farm itself, but the Clough family had lived there quite some time when my mother married my father (Lee Clough, Jr.) in the early 1940's. My mother and father lived on the farm, both in the big house you mentioned until after WWII and later in a smaller house on the farm. Mother has said the farm was a bit of heaven on earth and she remembers hoping she would never have to leave that place. (Alas, things happen.) She tells me the big house was decorated with murals and such by a well known artist from New York. He lived alone in the house while it was being built and painted the murals and bedroom decorations. He stayed for quite some time, but left when the wine cellar was depleted! I wonder if any of his work survives. Levi Clough, Sr. apparently showed his special cattle all over the country and Mother remembers a huge picture of a prize show bull hanging in the living room of the big house. I have more history - but too much for here. My father, Lee Clough, died when I was a baby - in 1957. I never knew him or any of the surviving relatives. I've never seen the farm - except through Mother's memory. I live in Texas now and haven't been able to get back just to explore. I am connected to the Warren County GenWeb because I have been trying for years to dig up any information I could on the Clough family and the farms. My maternal line, BROOKS, is also several generations rooted in Warren County. But, as far as we know, the Brooks' who lived on Blue Eye Road, and are connected to Brooks' Rocks, are not related to us. Our Brooks' came from Wrightsville, Freehold Township. Other surnames related to the CLOUGH line are DAVIS, maybe FINLEY. Other surnames related to the BROOKS line are: SCHATZ, PHILLIPS, MEAD, DAVIS, CHAPPELL, SPARLING. I would dearly love any further information anyone could offer on any of this. I'd love to see the farm. Debbie Clough Baisden Austin, Texas dbaisden@yahoo.com