Tuttle Family

In April, 1809, Benjamin Tappan, Jr. sold lots 55, 56, and 57 to the county commissioners for the purpose of a courthouse and jail (Gregory, 34). Benjamin’s brothers, William and John, were contracted to build them. The

The builder of this seventeen room Greek revival mansion was Stephen S. Speakman. In the early 1840s, the elderly Speakman fell in love with a much younger woman, Sarah Bush, whose father owned a slave-holding plantation in Kentucky. Upon asking her hand in marriage, his bride-to-be refused to marry him unless he built her a southern plantation-style mansion. In 1845, with the use of his father-in-law’s slaves, Speakman erected his mansion on a five hundred acre plot next to Loughery Creek with every brick baked on site (Historical Marker Project).

An old home sat on what is now Lots 32-33. The Browns kept horses on the east side of the property. Located nearby was a circa-1951 horse barn and a water tower for the citrus groves. Mr. Brown also dug out a large pond near clumps of cypress trees.

It is the summer of 1970 in Northern Ohio. The Hadley family is the wealthiest family out of all the families that populates the city of Toledo. They all live in a subdivision called Old Timbers Valley with mother, Lydia, father, George, and Peter and Wendy. The Darling family lives in a sky blue house on top of clouds, the Tremaine family lives in the old, enchanted house, and Old Man Geppetto lives in an Old-Italian village home. Unlike the others, the Hadley’s house is future realistic, full of technology. From lights turning on and off as one walks, stoves making food, sinks washing dishes, a nursey that illuminates the children’s imagination, and so many more laborless enhancements. The children’s nursey is called the Veldt, which can

Deborah Sampson didn’t have such a great childhood. She was born on December 17, 1760, and was the oldest of 6 siblings. She lived in a very poor family and her father never returned from a trip to sea. After, her mother was unable to care for her kids that when they became older she divided them into different homes. Deborah was soon taken by an 80 year old woman named Mrs.Thatcher that lived in Middleborough. Mrs. Thatcher was

as the Ise’s homestead a claim in Osborne County, Kansas. The book is told from the point of view of

BEING the same premises conveyed to the Grantors herein by deed of Mo Wells, et al., dated May 3, 1964, and recorded in the Lackawanna County Recorder of Deeds in Deed Book 810 Page 233.

Times were difficult in Habersham County. The skyrocketing prices of fuel and food were threatening to bankrupt the Johnson family’s small farm, which was no match for the multi-million-dollar mega-farms that had been popping up all over the southeast. Joseph, the family patriarch, was especially troubled by the farm’s

Part I of A Sand County Almanac is devoted to the details of a single piece of land: Leopold’s 120-acre farmed-out farmstead in central Wisconsin, abandoned as a farm years before because of the poor soil from which the "sand

BEING the same premises conveyed to the Grantors herein by deed of Mo Wells, et al., dated May 3, 1964, and recorded in the Lackawanna County Recorder of Deeds in Deed Book 810 Page 233.

Scott, John Anthony and Robert Alan Scott. John Brown of Harper’s Ferry. Facts On File Publications 1988.

James Marvin Ellis, born June 30, 1842, sparked the foundation of Ellsworth. Although Ellis did not receive a sufficient education as a child, at the age of thirty-two he both cultivated one hundred sixty acres of farmland and managed a general store. (History 759) Not only did Ellis publicly exert himself, but his private life prospered as well. Ellis and his wife, Mary A. Beaty, brought forth seven children to the local population: Marvin U., Hester J., Elliot E., Thomas G., Joseph A., and Lotta A. (Ellis 1). In addition to agriculture, family, and merchandising, he also served as the town’s original postmaster (History 760). This holds importance because a post office provided a town’s first official identification (Kreitzer 65). Ellis’ societal involvement ventured much further than the town of Ellsworth, though.

Everyone loves a good mystery, especially one that no one can solve. It gives one satisfaction to imagine that they can decipher it and become a hero, and it’s even more intriguing when it has lasted a few years. Some missing cases have even lasted several decades, but none have persisted as long as a case of a certain lost colony. Originating on an island off the coast of North Carolina in 1585, the mystery of The Lost Colonists of Roanoke Island has remained for over 400 years (History), and it continues to baffle historians, investigators, and archeologists alike.

impact on the town and the crops that grow in it. Old man Warner is the oldest in

I interviewed Marilee Hobbs, one of my mom’s close friends and Linda Keuver, the owner of the restaurant for my local history paper. When she was younger, Marilee worked at the Hans and Gretel Restaurant in East Durham off of Route 145. Linda Keuver was married to John Keuver, whose family owned the Hans and Gretel Restaurant. Hans and Gretel is located about a quarter of a mile south of the Stonebridge Road and Stonebridge Road Extension intersection on the east side of the road. The Beers’ Atlas showed the main road running through East Durham, Route 145, but each piece of property was labelled with the land owner’s names. This made it hard to determine the exact location and prior use on the Beers’ Atlas. John Keuver’s parents bought the