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560. ALBERT LACLAIR: In 1956 Catherine M. Parkinson, out of the old Parkinson farm, sold to Felix C. and Roxanna E. Damaziak a house lot west of the road. They built a house and sold 1958 to Albert and Clara LaClair.
South of the LaClair house, west of the road, there is a cellarhole. This land belonged first to Aaron Stearns; in 1794 he sold to his son Jesse one-
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half of his place, excepting his buildings. It is possible that Jesse built a house here-perhaps he was married 1794. By 1806 six of his children were baptized. Road records indicate that he may have still been here as late as 1808, although they sold the property to Abner Royce in 1800. There is no record of his ownership of any other property, although he probably lived in Walpole all his life. In 1834 he was occupying a Nichols farm. He was remembered as a lame shoemaker. In 1850 he and his wife were listed as inmates at the Town Farm.
If there was a house here, it may also have been where Jonathan Bux- ton lived. His wife died Aug. 13, 1810 (34) and he died Mar. 21, 1813 (41) of malignant fever. In 1814 a Buxton child was bid off to Abner Royce for 44 cents per week. There are no deeds to Buxton. Whatever there was here was no doubt gone before 1850. Marvin Royce's heirs sold this land to Prentiss in 1843.
The schoolhouse lot came out of this property, a small piece west of the road, in 1841, replacing the earlier school down at the intersection of the old county road and the early crossroad (Cheney Hill). In his later years Lewis Whitney bought this old school house 1901, lived here; sold 1922 to Nellie Ada and Earle Westcott; 1930 to Fred Mann. He died 1932; 1938 his brother Eugene gave a quit claim deed to their brother Carl E.'s widow Phoebe Landon Horton Mann. She married later a Tego. The place is said to have burned while the Hortons lived here.
John W. Prentiss describes that school as follows: "I started school in the old red school house, District Number Three. It was located about forty rods south from our house on a rough plot of ground surrounded on three sides by a stone wall, still standing (1942). The building, I should say, was about thirty by twenty feet. Inside the main building was the school room. As for the ell, the door from the yard opened into a room used to take off the hats and coats of the pupils with a door which opened into the schoolroom. The balance of the ell was occupied by a woodshed and con- nected with the cloak room by a narrow passage was the toilet, built upon the up-to- date plan of the time. Entering the schoolroom a level floor about twelve feet wide ran the length of the building with two windows near each end, the space between occupied by a blackboard which was simply that-no embellishments. The stove, a big cast iron heater, stood directly in front of the entrance about six feet from the door. It would take in a three foot stick of wood and a log a foot through. The teacher's bench with a built-in board seat was at the far corner from the door. The benches about three and a half feet long had a shelf for the books, pencils, etc., and a pine board seat for two pupils. The first row was on a level with the floor and each row about eight inches higher, in all four rows of desks. There were aisles between the desks leading out to the back row which was occupied by older pupils, many of whom were full grown, particularly in the winter term when they were not needed to help on the farm. There were two windows on the sides and four on the back side and two in front. These served as ventilators as well as for light."
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CHENEY HILL ROAD
561. FELIX DAMAZIAK: Azariah Dickinson was here, first place north of Dodge Tavern, as early as 1793, brought together various parcels of land, some from Thomas Bellows. He sold 1836 to Ephraim Prentiss; 1847 to Theron Prentiss; 1849 to John W. Prentiss; 1858, 1864 to Daniel O'Brien; 1936 to Timothy O'Brien, to Felix Damaziak.
Daniel O'Brien farmed here, ran a meat market and milk wagon in Bellows Falls.
562. CELLARHOLE: Next east of the Azariah Dickinson farm was the Theodore Bellows tract on the east line of the town, south from the At- kinson south line, sold to him 1783 by his brother Thomas. In 1785 he sold to Daniel Denison Jr. 53 acres, strip 50 rods wide along the west side of the lot. This includes two cellarholes, one north and one south of the road; 1790 to Daniel Messer, carpenter; 1792 to Gilbert Griswold; 1797 to Gideon Allen; 1801 to Elijah Waldo; 1802 to Oliver Goodell; 1806 to Josiah Bellows; 1807 part north side of road to Azariah Dickinson. He probably rented to Moses W. Alden who was occupying it 1834. Owner- ship continued with the Dickinson place, buildings gone before 1858.
563. STEELE CELLARHOLE: The land south of the road Josiah Bellows sold 1807 to Silas Angier Jr .; 1807 to Lois Steele, widow; 1822 her estate to Samuel Steele of Springfield; 1823 to Samuel Jr .; 1833 to Sampson Tuttle. Whatever house there had been was gone before 1834 or by 1834 -perhaps that was why the Steeles sold. It then became a part of the Tut- tle farm and was known only as the Steele lot.
564. CHENEY CELLARHOLE: At the top of the hill on the road easterly from Dodge Tavern is the cellarhole of the old John Cheney house, north of road. There are numerous walls denoting barns, outbuildings, and barnyard. Here in 1798 John Cheney bought from Jonathan Royce, out of the Theodore Bellows' tract, 105 acres extending from Gideon Allen's land on the west to Pearl Parker's on the east. No doubt the hill took its name from him. It is a steep, ledgy hill, leveling off at the Cheney build- ing site and dropping away gently to the east. Cheney's name does not appear in any vital statistics, so nothing is known of the family. He re- moved to Concord, Vt. after selling the farm in 1806 to Benjamin Angier (Eunice), then of Alstead. They seem to have lived here; sold 1813 to David Corliss (Louisa) of Alstead; 1822 to John Barker (Rachel); 1829 to Asa Wentworth Jr .; 1832 to Azariah Dickinson; 1834 to Danae Dodge
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of Alstead; 1834 to Stephen Johnson. The farm was broken up and buildings gone before 1858.
565. DEACON PEARL PARKER CELLARHOLE: Next east, on the Alstead line, was the farm of Deacon Pearl Parker, the cellarhole north of the road, just over the line in Alstead. In 1786 Pearl Parker, who already owned land on the Alstead side of the line, bought of Theodore Bellows 50 acres next west. In 1817 he sold his farm to Silas Corliss (Sally) of Glover, Vt., recorded as follows:
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. "the condition of above obligation is such that whereas above named Pearl
Parker hath given me a deed of all his real estate of which he is now in possession in Walpole and Alstead on condition I deliver to him during his natural life yearly and to Lydia his wife if she survives him: 12(?) of good pork well fatted; 200 wgt. of good beef; 6 bu. good wheat; 12 bu. Indian corn; 8 bu. good rye; 20 bu. potatoes; 1 bu. white beans; 3 bu. turnips; with all necessary garden sauce usually raised on common farms; also 8 barrels good cider; 2 gallons of West India; 3 gallons N. E. rum; above articles to be provided in proper season usually laid up among farmers; also 8 lbs. good tobacco; 3 lbs. snuff; 6 lbs. tea; 10 lbs. brown sugar; 3 gallons molasses; and to keep for him 2 cows and their calves till they are 2 years old; 6 sheep; 1 horse summer and winter; 2 bu. good salt and privilege of making use of as many apples as he and his wife shall chuse or wish to eat, dry, lay up for winter, make apple sauce, etc., at their pleasure; also grant full use of west room in dwelling house, with privilege of kitchen, chamber and cellar; also grant Nancy, daughter of said Pearl, to make her home in house during her minority or till married and at 21 or when married give her $100; also agree to find wood sufficient for one fire summer and winter being cut and brought into house. If Lydia survives 1/2 of the above to be provided but to have house, fire- wood, etc. in full; also Parker to have west half of garden; also provide expenses if sick; also allow them liberty to put up a friend's horse who may call; also give yearly $6.00 for expense money; also keep for their use one horse wagon or sleigh."
In 1822 Silas sold to David Corlis. By 1824 Pearl had died, his widow Lydia still had her dower right. Samuel Hartwell of Langdon took over the farm on a mortgage, sold 1837 to George V. R. Watts; 1844 to Thuly Freeman of Newburyport, Mass., Lamson Beckwith occupying; 1857 to Wm. Ahern of Rockingham, Davis occupying; 1868 to Charles E. Porter of Alstead; 1870 to Wm. A. and Chas. A. Bond; 1896 Bond heirs to Thomas Garrity (buildings must have been gone by then); Annie F. Byrnes inherited; estate 1956 to Page Riley. This place was a landmark in Walpole road descriptions.
In The Spirit of the Farmers' Museum (1801) there is an account of a hermit, James Hazelton, who was said to have lived near the Alstead line in a "dwelling dug from the mountain and covered with the bark of the spruce tree," having lived there for twenty years alone with his spaniel and cat. No records indicate where he
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may have lived, or what his family connections. He was said to have retired from society at the age of 40, probably born about 1735.
VALLEY ROAD
566. GEORGE VELNOR LONG: In 1802 Roger Fenton bought from John Bellows 107 acres here, increased to 170 acres. In 1808 Joseph Bellows and Thomas Bellows Jr., merchants, took a 15-year lease for setting up a potash on this farm, the rent to be all the leached ashes or $5 yearly. In 1825 Fenton sold to Joseph Field (Lydia); 1827 to Henry Hubbard of Charlestown, to Reuben Dodge and Josiah Simonds; Gardner Dodge inherited from his father Reuben, and he left it to his three younger sons, Frank, Henry and Charles. The southerly part Frank had, except what had already been sold to William Rollins, and lived here. In 1916 he made over conditionally to George Velnor Long for providing neces- sary support as long as Frank should live; 1934 gave quit claim deed. The house is old.
ROLLINS FARM
In 1831 Reuben Dodge sold to his son-in-law William Rollins the south part of the Fenton farm, most of it east of the road, but a little point on the west side where Rollins lived. He added more to the farm.
In 1879 Rollins sold to James P. Nash with the provision that he "see him through"; 1885 to George W. Jenna of Northfield, Vt., with the provision that Jenna would care for Nash's son Arthur born Sept. 26, 1881; in 1886 to Oliver Martin; 1887 to Daniel O'Brien; 1924 to Stephen J. and Alice Westcott; 1931 estate to Powers Realty Trust; 1941 Vt. Sav- ings Bank of Brattleboro to Henry P. and Molly A. Narkiewicz; 1941 to George L. and Stella I. Walker and Stanley Tomasheski; 1943 to Clayton A. and Marguerite C. Hawksley of Langdon; 1947 to Henri M. and Beatrix H. Anger; 1947 to Leslie J. and Rose Swain; 1950 Leslie to Rose the south side of the road. He died 1950. There are now the following houses out of this property, south of highway, from northwest to south- east:
567. IRA H. DAY JR .: In 1957 the Swains sold to Ira H. Jr. and Genevieve J. Day, land and buildings.
568. ROSE SWAIN: Mrs. Swain has a house next east. The old Rollins house which stood in front of the present house, closer to the highway, burned in 1948.
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568A. TOWN OF WALPOLE: In 1950 the Swains sold to Marion Critch- field; 1954 to Edward J. and Gladys E. St. Cyr; 1958 to Town of Walpole. 569. ELMER L. HICKS: In back of her own house Mrs. Swain sold in 1956 to Elmer L. and Dorothy Hicks.
570. BENNIE A. CARTER: In 1953 Mrs. Swain sold to Charles L. and Marion L. Critchfield; 1957 to Bennie A. and Rita F. Carter, land and buildings-long red house.
571. JOHN L. SWAIN: In 1952 to Floyd and Rose M. Critchfield; 1957 land and buildings to Robert F. and Joyce E. Adams; 1961 to John L. Swain.
572. LAWRENCE W. GRAVES: In 1950 the Swains sold 40 acres east of the road to Francis Robert Schulenberger; through various transactions it came to G. Velnor Long who in 1954 sold a small part with land and buildings to Harold F. and Faith E. Ball; 1954 to George E. and Joyce W. Parkinson; 1959 to Lawrence W. and Carola M. Graves.
573. HAROLD F. BALL: Next east was the Tony James' Sampson Tuttle farm. This was from land which James Smith (Patty) brought together piece by piece to a total of 30 acres. He first bought the land northeast of the Turnpike in 1808 from Silas Angier Jr., probably erecting his buildings here. In 1819 he sold to Josiah Bellows; 1824 to Jacob Tuttle; 1830 estate to Sampson Tuttle of Alstead; 1871 heirs to Lewis V. and Susan A. Clough of Reading, Vt .; 1876 to Levi K. Wetherbee of Read- ing; 1884 to Charles A. Jennings; 1886 to Emma and J. Stratton Walker of Langdon (Jennings assaulted Walker who died as a result); 1887-8 to Charles Parkinson. There were various Parkinson deeds within the fam- ily; 1933 Walter W. Parkinson sold to Tony Jermacz (James); 1953 to Harold F. and Faith E. Ball.
574. STEPHEN L. AND MADELINE K. JAMES: In 1952 Tony and Martha James deeded to Stephen L. and Madeline K. James, brother and sister, a small piece out of the Tony James place. This is a tiny green and white house south of the homestead. They live here with their mother, Frances Kilburn James.
575. JOHN R. HURD: In 1958 the Balls deeded to Robert J. and Anna M. Kenney a small lot with buildings west of the highway; 1961 to John R. and Shirley M. Hurd. Richard Swain built this about 1950.
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576. ROYCE CELLARHOLE: In 1772 Benjamin Bellows deeded to Class Sumner 50 acres across which ran the very early road to Alstead from Walpole Village. In 1777 he deeded it to Daniel Allen Jr. of Ashford, Conn .; 1778 to Isaac Johnson; 1778 to Isaac Johnson Jr .; 1779 to Jona- than Knights of Lancaster, Massachusetts Bay, for £1300; 1784 to Joseph Brown for £100; 1787 to Thomas Johnson of Alstead; 1789 to Moses Emery, bucketmaker, of Haverhill, Mass., later of Dover, N. H .; 1791 to Jonathan Royce; 1815 to his son Marvin. This has gone through a great many divisions and rearrangements. The Royce home was on this lot, on the old road to Alstead, a short distance from the present highway near the Wood place, north of the road, the cellarhole north of the old road, all grown up to woods now. It now belongs to Oliver Hubbard.
576. HERBERT J. WOOD: This place, also out of the Marvin Royce prop- erty, came through Samuel Nichols and is known as Royce pasture. In 1942 Katie M. Prentiss sold to Herbert O. and Ruby F. Wood 21 acres; 1957 to Herbert J. and Beverly A. Wood a part of the tract. Woods built a house about 1951.
577. HAROLD S. SILVER: Out of the Royce land that had been bought by Henry Watkins, whose heirs sold to Willis Foster, a piece was sold by Foster in 1924 to Andrew J. Heath; 1938 to Frank W. Leete; 1944 to Raymond and Tressa M. Phillips; 1958 to Harold S. Silver who built the building on the bank. This is west of the road south of the Wood place.
578. JOHN CROSS CELLARHOLES: Also out of the Royce land was the 60 acre Cross farm on the Alstead line. In 1796 a road was extended from the Maple Grove Road northeasterly to the Alstead line here, then discon- tinued 1834. There are three cellarholes along this road up near the town line, all seemingly on the Cross farm. In 1786 Jonathan Royce bought this 60 acres from Theodore Bellows and in 1815 gave it "for love and affection I bear to my daughter Phebe, wife of John Cross". Probably they had already settled here even as early as 1801. In 1822 they sold for $500 to John Cross Jr. (Eunice Beckwith of Acworth); 1831 he, then of Burke, Vt., to Ruggles Watkins; 1842 the other heirs to Henry J. Watkins "the Cross place"; 1897 his heirs "the Cross pasture" to Daniel O'Brien; 1946 heirs to Edward J. Rock.
579. HENRY WHITNEY CELLARHOLE: In 1830 Nehemiah Royce (Polly, daughter of Jonathan Royce) sold this farm to Henry Whitney, 70 acres. Henry and Sally Whitney's son Lewis F. had it after them. Prentiss wrote: "This was a very rough, stony farm which now would be considered only
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fit as a pasture, yet the Whitneys lived here and prospered. A son, Lewis F., lived there alone for many years after his parents died. He built a large barn, had also a slaughter house, and for many years did the butchering for that end of the town." His barn burned Dec. 4, 1906, and the buildings fell down. In 1921 he was living with Chauncey Knowlton, died April 19, 1926 (89) at the County Home. George E. Edwards owns the place now.
580. GERALD H. FRENETTE SR .- TOWN FARM: Elijah Burroughs bought 1784 and 1791 from Theodore Bellows and from Col. Bellows estate; sold 1814 to Levi Saddler of Grafton, Mass .; 1816 to James Aiken (Eurelia P.); 1822 to David Carpenter of Keene; 1835 to William W. Graves (Mar- garet); 1844 to Town of Walpole for Town Farm; 1867 to John H. Moriarty; 1883 heirs to John W. Prentiss; 1917 to Alexander Marlow; 1930 to William F. Frick of Bloomfield, N. J. (Gertrude M.); 1933 to Ernest A. and Emma M. Reed; 1942 Cheshire County Farmers' Coopera- tive Exchange sold to Herman L. Sargent; 1944 to George E. and Hil- dred V. Edwards; 1946 to Harry G. and Florence Mae Clark; 1957 to Lawrence W. and Carola M. Graves; 1959 to George E. and Joyce W. Parkinson; 1962 to Gerald H. Sr. and Bertha A. Frenette.
House burned Dec. 1893, rebuilt 1894.
Prentiss wrote: "The first house (from Alstead town line) had long been used as the town's 'Poor House.' Here the selectm'en, as 'overseers of the poor,' boarded indigent people, grownups and children, who lacked means of support. The place was kept by a Mr. Jenkins who had charge of it for many years, being hired by the town. About 1870 (1867) the poor farm was done away with by vote of the town and the farm was sold to John Moriarty, a sturdy and capable Irishman. They came from the house which they had built on the site just south of the little cemetery, opposite the Jesse Grout buildings. The Moriartys were smart, thrifty and had four children, Weston, Frank, Nora and Nancy."
EARLY COUNTY ROAD SOUTH OF VALLEY ROAD
581. WARREN CELLARHOLE: In 1789 Cornelius Warren was given a deed from Col. Bellows for the farm where he was living as early as 1782, the 53 acre lot next north of the Webber lot in the hill ranges, between the early county road and the Cheshire Turnpike. In the 1797 inventory Warren had 2.5 acres plowland, 10 acres mowing, 16 acres pasture, 14 acres wild land, 1.5 acres orchard. The old orchard was in the northwest corner of that part that became the John Royce farm, near the Turnpike (still some old apple trees here). In 1814 his heirs sold the west 18 acres to Jonathan Royce Jr., he to Jonathan Royce. The east 30 acres also went
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to Jonathan Royce Jr .; 1822 to John Royce. The buildings must have been on this part of the farm, probably near the west end. This con- tinued as a farm for some years, was finally mortgaged 1839 to Hope Lathrop; he took it, sold 1874 to Oliver J. Hubbard; now belongs to Leslie Hubbard. Buildings were gone before 1858, all grown up now.
582. ISAIAH EATON CELLARHOLE: The Warren farm was northeast of the early county road. On the southwest side was the lot which Col. Chris- topher Webber bought from Col. Bellows, recorded 1782, 50 acres; 1786 to Moses Hazelton (Haseltine). He died April 19, 1787 (about 33). He had a son David baptized Jan. 22, 1786. His heirs, Sarah and Jesse Smith of Pelham sold the place 1797. It is possible that Sarah was his widow and had remarried. They sold to Isaiah Eaton. There seem to have been three Eatons in this section. Timothy may have been the father, Isaiah his son. Timothy sometime before 1787 acquired a third and fourth strips south of the Warren lot; he died sometime between 1792 and 1796; Isaiah later had the property. Eliphalet Eaton, son of Ebenezer, had the Moses Fisher place 1793-7 and later the lot next south of Timothy's. Eaton Hill here took its name from this family. Maj. Isaiah Eaton is said to have been a silversmith 1789-99, also made at least one clock.
In 1815 Eaton sold the farm to James Johnson and seems to have re- moved to Westminster, but he subsequently took back the farm. He had a potash near the brook at the west end of his property on the road. He seems to have rented the farm, for John Prentiss says his grandfather moved here from Alstead in 1819. Elijah H. Prouty bought of Eaton heirs. Lewis Adams lived here 1852. He sold 1855 to George Huntington; 1863 to John Ryan. They were here as early as 1860, probably renting before they bought. He died before 1867, widow Ellen sold 1867 to Wil- liam Hall. From him it descended to Charles Seward and it is known as the Seward pasture. He sold 1919 to Fred O. Smalley; 1936 to Michael J. and Bessie Butterfield; 1945 to Herbert O. Wood. The buildings stood south of the old county road toward the west end of the lot. The house faced north, long side to the road, with the front door in the center (stone still here), lilacs on the west end, barn down the hill on the west. There is no record of how long the buildings stood after the Ryans left here. Road discontinued 1894.
There was probably also a set of buildings on Eaton Hill belonging to the Timothy Eaton farm.
In 1781 there was a road from John Still's north line (#453) by Nathaniel Messer's to Alstead line, and the Maple Grove Road was
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supposed to have come into this road at the east end of the Seward pas- ture. In the records the survey for this road is the same as that given for the road from the same place to the mills, apparently a mistake in copying.
Along the north side of the Manning (#453) field are double stone walls extending eastward, but they soon peter out, leaving one to guess the course of the road and where Nathaniel Messer's house was between there and the Maple Grove Road.
583. JOSHUA EMERY CELLARHOLE: North of the old county road, to the west of the Warren and Eaton places, one may find the cellarhole of the old Joshua Emery farm. He had his 50 acre lot from the Bellows estate by contract 1781, added somewhat to it. Joshua and wife Ruth were living here 1830. By 1834 he had died and his heirs left Walpole. The farm was divided and sold to adjoining landowners.
WHITNEY ROAD NORTH FROM VALLEY TO DREWSVILLE
This was first laid as a county road 1785. According to a survey and several references, the first road turned north from the present Cutler (#547) place instead of by the Robie place as at present. The plan was modified after the survey was made to shorten the route, so it is not clear whether the road was ever built as surveyed and recorded, probably not. This was later the Cheshire Turnpike, an important stage route from Cheshire Bridge in Charlestown to Keene. In the 1840's after much haggling, it was made into a county road.
584. CHARLES L. CRITCHFIELD: East of the highway in the dip near the brook, south side, Lena (Mary) Robie sold an acre in 1959 to Albert H. and Lena M. Fletcher, they to Edwin O. and Claire L. Pratt; 1961 to Vincent J. and Annie L. Walsh; 1961 to Charles L. and Marion A. Critchfield.
585. LEON C. BRYANT: On the hill west of the road and north of the brook is the Bryant place. In 1797 Thomas Bellows sold here 58 acres to Levi Fairbanks, formerly bargained to Jabez Warren; 1803 to William Wyman (Prudence). The place was broken up after Wyman's death. In 1824, 38 acres sold here to Jonathan Royce; 1851 Cyrus Royce to Willard Shaw (Maria); 1854 to Andrew J. Fisher; 1870 to Edward E. Smith; 1873 to Oliver Martin, to Benjamin F. Dwinnell (Lucy); 1883 to Oliver Martin, to Mary J. Redding Whitney (James); son Charles had after them; since 1946 Leon C. and Ellen Whitney Bryant, daughter of Charles.
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586. CHARLES WELCH: In 1808 William Wyman bought the 59 acre lot next south of the Atkinson line from Thomas Bellows. Probably the Wyman house was what was later the Chandler house, near where the new Remick house now stands. After William's death the estate was broken up, Daniel Turner bought the part west of the turnpike, land and buildings; 1826 quit to Robert Clark; 1827 to Thomas Nichols Jr. (Prudence); 1835 to Joseph Cobb; 1872 other heirs to Samuel D. Cobb; 1898 to Leslie H. Chandler of Alstead (Edna M.); 1940 daughter Vivian E. Whitney sold her share to brother Hollis G. Chandler; 1957 to Charles and Elizabeth H. Welch. They built a new house west of the road near the northern end of the property, poultry plant east of road.
This was a lively place while the Chandlers owned. Hazel Buswell told of going to many dances here. April 1900 forty friends gathered with lunch baskets, fiddles and other preparations for a good time, the evening and much of the night spent in a joyful manner. The house was struck by lightning and burned July 26, 1906.
587. HARRY H. REMICK: Before Chandler sold to Welches, he had sold 1955 out of the south part of the tract west of the road a house lot to Calvin S. and Dorothy E. Powers; 1955 to Harley W. and Dorothy W. Prentiss; 1957 to Harry H. and Shirley E. Remick who built the house.
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