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2/15/2019

1852 Map

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If you are interested in seeing the area as mapped in great detail in the year 1852, this library of Congress map can be viewed and downloaded at the link above. 
At the time of this map the road currently known as Stone Road is labeled the Lockport-Warren's Corners Plank Road. At the time it was a Wooden Plank Road with a Toll collected once in Lockport. Also at this time Ezra lives with his son in the Tavern but still ownes the Grange across the Ridge Road in his own name and surrounded by the homes of his family.
This map is not only geared towards Warren's Corners though. If you ever wondered what your area looked like or perhaps who owned your house, it can show you the answers to those questions as well. 

Happy Discovering!

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Sally Kolkmeyer link
2/16/2019 04:28:58 am

Right to the left of Forsyth Tavern at the white fold of the map is where the seven Sutherland sisters lived but whose house burned down. How can I tell now where that was.

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Tyler J Booth link
2/16/2019 08:50:59 am

Hello Sally,

So that is a question that I can answer for you! So directly across from the Wolf Ridge Guest House is a grey-white farm house. This house was built by the sisters but they never moved into it. Instead it was sold off to one of the Forsyths. To the West was the mansion; hidden behind rows of trees and at one time had several guest houses, a pool and barns. (There is a great and detailed description of this house in Brandon M. Stickney's: The Amazing Seven Sutherland Sisters) After the mansion burned to the ground a new house was built on the still quite lavish foundations. This house is a brick Cape which after some admiring, one will note an unusually large foundation coming out of the back of the building. The cellars of the mansion are said to be quite haunted. During the sisters' lives there it house a great many cats, rodents and other animals but when the Carpenter family lived there there were many stories of screaming apparitions, midnight voices and shadowy faces in the basement door windows.

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