Sandstone was quarried nearby. Christopher Hartley house. Timbers fallen in. Built about 1820. Looking north from Harrison homestead across Hartley Valley.
Barn is rear center.
Here the parents lived to a ripe old age, the father dying in 1864 at the age of 86 years and the mother in 1867 at the age of 78 years. I can barely remember them. He was a doughty old Englishman, wore a red coat with smooth brass buttons and persisted in some of the methods of the old country as to fencing, for there is still to be seen on the farm some of the stone fences which he built at an early date. The first clearing of the forest was toward the creek, being comparitively level and of aluvial soil, grew the best crops. Other brush and trees not fit for lumber or might be used for firewood were grubbed out, gathered in great heaps and burned.