Hello list: There is an old stone house on SR 3007 (Clarksburg Road that runs from Newport Road to 286 at Clarksburg). Is there any historical significance to the house. It looks really old. Would love to know something about it. Kathleen _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --41987341-694261562-1098811174=:6392 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Kathleen... That is the Hart homestead, built in about the late 1820s. It is currently owned by the Gennis (sp...sorry I don't have those notes here) family who lives across the road in the white house. If you are very polite and ask first, they might let you take a closer look, but they don't like trespassers (she told me a very funny story about running her tractor behind someone who just pulled down to the house and blocking their way out so they had to come and ask---pretty fiesty older woman! :-) ). The house is wonderful...after showing pictures to the architectural historian who is on my dissertation committee, she pointed out that what you think is the front of the house is actually the back. The walls are about 24 inches thick, with four rooms upstairs and four rooms down, though the owners don't let anyone go in there any more, because it is too run down. Part of the top of the roof came off in the storms of the last few years, so it is not likely to last very much longer. :-( There is a conveniently located spring with the remains of a stone spring house with two chambers...the spring is still running. I believe Hart is buried up at Ebenezer Church. If I find more in my notes at home, I'll send them. I can also send you images, if you'd like. The house was one that I targetted for my dissertation. By the way, if anyone knows of any very old houses like that still in the county, please let me know! I'd appreciate it. There are still some log houses in the county. I've recorded a few, but would love to find more. -Sonya Barclay On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Kathleen Wolfe wrote: > Hello list: > > There is an old stone house on SR 3007 (Clarksburg Road that runs from > Newport Road to 286 at Clarksburg). Is there any historical significance to > the house. It looks really old. Would love to know something about it. > Kathleen > > _________________________________________________________________ > Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ > > > ==== PAINDIAN Mailing List ==== > Having trouble unsubbing? Send a message with the word > "unsubscribe" (no quotation marks) in the body of the message to: > <PAINDIAN-L-request@rootsweb.com> or > <PAINDIAN-D-request@rootsweb.com> > > > --41987341-694261562-1098811174=:6392--