It faced the river. Northwest, I believe. Two trees still standing formed the southern bounds of the old house. A pear tree marked the southwest corner of the house and a weeping willow tree the southeast corner. It was vacated in 1962 and then razed in 1963 to make way for the roadside park.
People seem to prefer the newer, bigger picnic facilities on the other side of the access road.
Yes, I'm familiar with the idea. The potter's field, a pauper's graveyard, is a lonely vestige of the Pleasants County poor farm. When they built the school, they had to take out those graves and relocate them further up the hill, on the hillside. And there was one or two, I suppose, overcoats. They were made of wool, and they hadn't decomposed.