ville the village was composed of eight houses a store the thomson villa school and a blacksmith shop the inhabitants had telephone communications by the make wary telephone company with the surrounding farmers settled in peter's township in eight hundred fourteen and opened a store at the present site of thompson bill they became prosperous and carried on a trade between pittsburgh and new orleans in addition to their store the first post office in peter's township was established here in town civilian eight hundred fifty the village became a station on the washington pittsburgh trolling line in february of one thousand nine according to records moses thompson was the first postmaster of thompson after all that now i'd like to introduce my guests tina catherine tina dames magner virginia virginia  something that he had there to work on and i do remember going up to mc lee just to buy penny candy that if you had a penny you could get three pieces of candy so we did that often at  thirty nine hundred thirty six and we'd lived in the old store they had torn part of it down at that time and made a duplex out of it and my father had a barber shop there to store and some of his clientele i think still in peter's township up are saying claire oh and in say small township i've talked to them and  we had great neighbors we had austin charlotte right there next they were brother and sister and charlotte was taught school at clifton school seventh and eighth grade and austin worked at the on the village of thomas and the virginia certificate patent in april eighth seventeen eighty eight or this tract of land was granted to robert thompson i can remember all the song by glass and notes this was about three hundred  seventy acres and seventy three perches perch to you is sixteen and a half feet and a cost three pound one shilling eight pennies and at that time the survey map called all the sections and in peter my theory on that fact my great grandfather lived in the house next door at one time i tended store at one time and my father also worked there the various times  i started in thompson's hill to the school house probably one hundred thirty three until nine hundred thirty nine at which time they closed the school house down and we went to the high school building which is the building which was torn down for mine she sighed and said in a cross from the library up there and that's where we went to the rest of the grade school and complete high school and in fact the land of the schoolhouse was kind of a controversy mr who owned it i think my theory is or about three tracts of land one came in from the dolphins crossroads side my great grandfather owned thirty five acres on the back of it and probably my other great grandfather came up from the other side and i noticed the sign the sign post out of thompson bill the oil floors or the flooring is still there that was there originally every year we came back to school they had more oil into the floors which was a thing to do then i think they would burn down down the what was it eighteen nineteen zero seven but the first school built on it was eight hundred fifty six which faced the direction of dulles is crossroads was it also a  so much for mason work so there was masonry work on it and at that time the land was owned by a james s pollock so then that we went into the one thousand nine hundred seven school which is a one exist now very much the same as it is now you went in the front door and usually would run into the bell rope was hanging right down there to the right was the girls club room where they hang their coats their coats and put their lunch buckets and so forth to the left was the boys and i know we may had five or six classes in there sandbox and the middle of the room with a coal stove in the middle of the stage that is there yet there's a little uprising those still there at that time there was no upstairs as a restaurant has now that wasn't there and i can remember my dad's story and i assume the old school house that when they left to go home at night they all through their pens and stuck them in the ceiling because you would think wells and fans and so forth so i could it must have been the old one  i and sometimes we didn't get back to school when we should have and we had a rock i don't know if you i don't know if the boys ever went down to the to the left toward top to ward the hill station the well back to the buses and then i remember when i went to the back wheel school and whenever we transferred over to the high school which was you know the old high school  be that you can hardly see but that is a picture of the old school on eighteen fifty six that was faced the opposite direction eighteen fifty six eighteen fifty six so that was facing the opposite direction which direction  about just about where boss florist is right now with the bridge going over nineteen there supposedly they had dances whatever in that any way rooms or whatever  in the cars could go that fast it might the never to streetcar stop then they called it or stop and that's a picture of a house which was my great grandfather's house at the foot of the valley brook an old washington road that isn't there anymore i don't know what was in there somewhere and that was probably say yes that's a valley like five smother on the left and thomas rhodes with a horse and i would judge that would be  somewhere about eight hundred ninety two picture of it as my guest that's old washington back in the earth only early in one thousand nine hundred probably the house was built in eighteen seventy one which was my great great grandfather's house i don't remember the barn and then left it burned in a fire so it was  area we had no dear we had no turkey they were here that came with the people passes rabbits squirrels yeah that was it when there were no deer and now you don't even see a pheasant now we don't so they are new to the area in the your farm is right near the round hotel right there where that's the house right was right beside the old store that the picture earlier shows it is still standing one time my great grandfather lived there and worked in the store but it is still  xander house where the so called post office was located in the lot of us you've got that is driving my great grandfather's house that you saw before but the old road as it is stands now still stands built nate hundred seventy one which i live behind it say that's on the corner where you live yeah that's on the corner where i live  that's probably one of the original eight houses that they mentioned earlier it's yes it was it was there would have a were there as a lot of old beams in it and they're very whoever i forget who lives there are very proud to canoes and fishing and whatnot while they went bankrupt in the in the fiasco and all the rowboats just go to the way i mean it just like to still see them sitting down there they just what the parallel with all washington that had all staked out but the they all went bankrupt who ever i don't remember that used to be my family land at one time also well where your house was  on the other side of valley brook is that where the trail would have would be in an area where i get there because he owned eight point six six nine acre in that area that in that the left hand side of the  washing is down with a rail fence around that was part of it at one time it was across in fact that one is i judge from the map a piece one hundred nineteen or the on one hundred other side so that would be a little over eight and a half acres of learned and then where the all or farm wire was they put nineteen through well their pastor was on one side and the barn and the house was on the other so they put a large tunnel on to the road for the cows to get right i sat and watched them build a highway a member that when i was a kid i mean literally almost the same thing like you did up until church and we couldn't figure out all these different angles and all these side streets and everywhere they were going to go and all half a mile well very hard only my drawling of course i've got the saddle bag so my great uncle or to grandfather grand uncle who delivered mail by horse so they must've gone years and that's another thing too when you had to stay after school for a player if you were in a play or any projects you had to do you didn't have a bus to haul you home you walked you know i remember why we did it so i have my own but you know what when your mother gave me the history she didn't use any notes well again i'd like to thank you all and if you have nothing more anybody have anything else the final thing i don't think come along what it is we are what i was learning in college they're learning in eighth grade one minute so that's my problem and what i've gotten college my grandkids are coming home with in early high school right right so well again i'd like to thank you all and