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Mon Apr 29, 2019, 02:13 PM

Apr 2019

I think I've mentioned this before, but my house was a stage coach station built as among the first stops on a turnpike after the Revolutionary War. It was built circa 1795, and had a doctor's office in it, and served as the first local post office. And there is the foundation of a black smith's shop at the edge of my lawn, dating from the late 1800s.

I've loved local history since I was in the first grade, and the principal spoke to our class about an incident with Joseph Brant that played a role in the Revolutionary War. I remember being excited when I told my mother about it. She told me one of my g-g-grandfathers had been friends with Brant, and adopted two Indian children orphaned by the war. My older brothers showed me the sites where various things had taken place. I still have the book I got on Indian history in 2nd grade.

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