I finally got around to taking the photo walk out on the land my dad grew up on that his grandfather had homesteaded. I've wanted to go back out there for a while -- had hoped to do it when I had a get pushed challenge that ended up with my doing photos inspired by Andrew Wyeth. Didn't have a chance to go out to the farm then. I decided on the spur of the moment yesterday (Monday) that I'd better do it before it got a lot colder the next day. This is a view from what would have been a front room had a tornado not taken out that part of the stone house. The cupboard is in the back room in a wooden addition. We're looking through the back of the shelves, which of course would have had a wall between them and the "room" I'm standing in (now just a space outdoors). The cupboard doors were periodically blowing open and then closed with the wind.
I'll be posting a few more photos taken on that walk.
@allred3 Mary Lou, I don't know when the house was built. I'm guessing somewhere in the 1880's. My great-grandfather, Daniel McCoy was in the area as early as the mid 1850's and obtained the first part of his land in 1859, His brother, John, was a stonemason and arrived with his family in the mid-60's. But the homestead application filed in 1876 states that he has built a house "of logs, it is 16 x 14 feet, one story high, covered in clapboards, having board floor, and having one door and one window. I suppose it's possible he already had the stone house on the non-homesteaded portion, (people did sometimes put up a minimal structure on the homestead land and nominally live in it) but I doubt it. Hmmm...something to try and research. I need to go back and see which section of the land was gotten by purchase of a land warrant, which section by homestead, and which by purchase from the railroad. Then see which part the house sits on....sorry, thinking "out loud." Must remember this is a photography site and not a genealogy forum. Ha ha ha.
