When I asked James
Finley if I could use this photo above, he sent me two more:
James mentioned a
nearby quarry - and asked a very good question: “There is a small quarry right
at the bottom of the hill from where this stone is located. I'm sure most of
the large stones used in and around the property came from this quarry. My
question is, how could you tell if something was placed by Native Americans vs
colonials given that this stone is directly along a road?”
There’s no simple
answer to the question –and, living in a home built about the time, all I can
think of is more questions:
Is that road a
former Indian Trail?
Is there more
Indigenous Iconography in other stonework (such as the “wall” the stone seems
incorporated into)?
Looking at other
photos, I wonder, how many times has an original stone wall been rebuilt or had
stones added to?
What else is there
around there stone-wise, where does it lead to, what is enclosed?
And I wonder about
the house foundation: Is it quarried bricks and blocks, or is it like our house
– serpents and turtles and a surprising number of rhomboidal stones??
A link to the
Historic Home (with more photos by James):
(And I took a few classes taught by a certain professor Jacobs whom I’m pretty sure was named for his relative Timothy
Lester...)
2 comments :
Tim -
If you look at the street view of the Lester House on Google Earth, you'll get a good impression of what the walls look like. To me, they don't look much like what you have at your place. Too regular!
Looks like lots of re-building - James tells me the 2 previous owners did a lot of that...
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