and then there was a house on the duran world rosell droom that those who are three houses or up two of the town my parents bought this house for a summer home retirement home they bought the house they first saw it in one thousand nine hundred fifty and it was in very bad repair there was no paint on it and it was about to crumble into the ground and they left the house to my two sisters and myself and that became my house in actually two thousand we came up here in one nine hundred seventy i was recruited to the university of from in the college of medicine and we were looking around for a place to live and we ended up here deciding lead would build a house rather than buy one that had already been built and we love the territory and the countryside which was a lot kind of houses than now there were many a few houses there were no houses at the top of the hill on the left or the right as you come up the hill carter house was almost at the top on the right there were a couple of houses around the fish and game club area and then just the main farmhouse here the white farmhouse the don't farmhouse and the neighboring house and that was hit this was an old hill farm that ponza my uncle and he passed away and sold it to a person from massachusetts and i knew about it and because i had come up here and worked on the farm in the summertime when i was a teenager so i contacted the person who owned the property in the agreed to sell it to me at that point i decided i want to develop the property and put houses on the road at that time i didn't know exactly where the original gillette pond road was but i began to find traces of it and this is behind me in front of that big maple tree is a stone foundation it's buried now but you can still see some of the stones on the bank all sense now of course overgrown you wouldn't recognize them just by walking along you'd have to really pay attention to the configuration of the open parts of the land so that's basically how it came to be able to build this road the first tool that house was at the far end pond you know you go past the swamps there and across through in huntington that was the first one this was the second one there is was the third and the fourth i didn't know about until i had written my chapter about till it houses up the road if you go up pappy hollow road and term right there it's gone now it's disintegrated but i met the man whose mother had owned it had a party here in richmond and he'd tell me about it so there were four gillett houses i don't have any particular stories i don't know of any ghost stories or anything like this my dad always said there was a poltergeist in it and i you know it's come well i know  and all was sudden this is it was like the lowest note you could play on an organ just the whole room the whole way just filled up and we're trying to figure were running around trying to fit what where is it coming we couldn't ever figure out where it was coming from well after i renovated and got the house built back out the porter guy's got it's never come back but that was just before we discovered the writing in the wall which was right that same only thing i can think of are stories of people who are encountering wildlife the it is quite prevalent up here you see bear not with great regularity though there are some animal trails still that are reliably a location where you'll see bear and you'll see deer and you'll see moose and these things so perhaps stories are encounters with wildlife of various sorts from foxes to wo between the hallway central hall and what is now the living room there's writing on the wall that was written by a senior at richmond high school this is the oldest son of the harvey's who bone the house before my parents bought it they bought it from the harvey's and george george harvey and this is the son was george harvey junior  a senior in richmond high school and he gave the date so it turned out that if you went around the corner there we took out some with george jr at the very highest and george sr but an inch below i think most of the hardy boys were actually born in that house and then who owned it after i'm not fruits parents had dairy it also had sheep it also had potatoes and made lots of potash i'm sure winifred would have a lot to tell you about the history of that place what it was used for white middle maybe nineteen fourteen fifteen nobody knows exactly when but that burned down and then he had a potato fire on this field now my husband grew up on a farm about farming only thing that saved the main house from going up in smoke was that the potatoes when they burned they put out so much steam that it put out the fire this was a dairy farm and also they raised a back in the good old days i don't know if you've gotten into the history much of this but the population never mind was greater back in the like mate hundred eighty s and early one thousand nine hundred than it is today because they did so much farming and grazing hay for all the horses in boston and new york goes before the automobile had really moved in and so this was one of the big farms for raising hay as well as dairy cattle old way to this to this area and then on down to huntington the farm was two hundred fifty acres when my parents bought the house with only two acres  wyatt had expanded the farm because he was raising horses and there was a stage it was a stagecoach stop here you know where they'd change horses between jonesville and huntington i don't think old stone pencils and i do know that the road up the hill wasn't the original location as you've probably learned from others like fred carter that the original road went off to the right if you're starting up the hill and through the woods it was a gentler slope and my guess is when stage coaches were replaced by cars who which could go up steeper hills the road was rerouted it was gillette pun what they used to refer referred to it as  when was it since they died that they put the sign up hauling it was wide for us it's a very special place to live the territory immediately around our house really hasn't changed very much it's it's got abundant wildlife and there are wildlife crossings on the road that you may know about this one on our property that isn't used as much as one at the other end of the honeycomb river it's a wonderful place for birding because he has everything in his streams that is fields it is woods it has new growth it has the water and so we routinely can identify ninety to one hundred species of birds every year which is what we do with neighbors the miner it's and we enjoy that very much and of course canoeing on the pond this would not be the first time we could canoe in december but we could go out today right now in canoe basically the whole pond a little bit unusual for the winter though my son already has walked on the pond december first as