The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-28
SCOTS HILL AND HAMPSTEAD
Prosperous Towns Of Pretty Homes
and Fine Farms.
Thc Cultivation of Truck and General
Farm I'roducts-isosin INA Tsr-
t~efifiIie and Lumber Shipped LII
tarsc Quantities-Buss Saw AiH
That Supplies the Hannah Factory.
Especial to The Messenger.

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beautiful homes Respondent in har-
monious coloring, with generous green
lawns. are shaded by stalwart oaks,
DopIars and pines. The Foy estate is
only a few rods from New Hanover,
and in Pender county, and the Ds
white home with broad stairway lead
ing to the second story with Hospital
bic doorway and big curtained win
dows, frOnted by an expanse OF green,
and circIing carriage way is an ideal
Southern plantation home, with great
spreading oaks Jour and five feet
through, and poplars and pines tower"
ing so feet high. Beautiful Jerseys
add coloring to the lots at the oarns'
where big oaks grow, and wells OF cfys-
tai purity are found in the shade; cui-
tivated fields extend beyond the big
vegetable gardens, and woods horizon
the scene
This is the home of the Hon. Joseph
Il. FOy, who was born here, and so was
his father, Joseph NJ. FOy, and his
grand father, James FOy, lived on the
place half his life. 1t is worthy of
note that Cornelius Hdrnett owned Il
part of the present place which encom-
passes S15 acres, but Mr.. Foy own
about 1900 acres, including splendid
timber. The big house looks as if fin
ished yesterday, but it was built %
years ago. 1t has eleven rooms and
twelve big f%ireplaces, and is the en-
bodiment of peace and comfort. There
in for half q century has been SCOTS
Hill ~postOffice. Mrs. Foy looks after
Uncle Sam as we'll as her own house
hold, with great ability. Ion J. L. f'Oy
was state senator, has also been Il
men1ber of the house, and county COM
missioner for twelve years, chairnIaa
of the board eight years, and is a rep
resentative Southern gentleman to the
core.
His farm foreman, D. E. Ornsby, has
been with him Il dozen years and raises
about everything from peas to peanuts,
and Mr.. FOy is the champion sweet
potato grower.
Mr.. FOy's nephew, Robert Lee FOy,
is IL young gentleman of excellent
promise, who will go to the A. and NJ.
College this fall.
w. B. Canady has a snug little home
always we'll supplied with solids and
delicacies and 300 acres, 60 in cultiya-
ton, with lots of potatoes, and beans,
and II acres in peanuts. He has Jer-
sey stock, and the seven year old male,
he says, is as gentle as a lamb, and
he has a store and Mrs. Canady has
lots of chickens which keep her 'shoo-
ing early and late. Mr.. Canady was
a member of the Fourth n. c.. in the
sixties and after the war he and Squire
Blossom, of Castle Haynes, did some
N~wrecking'' on the coast. He is an en-
'ergetic, go-ahead citizen and Il pleasant
gentleman.
Francis NJ. Foy has Il very attractive
home n Il finely cultivated farm, with
truck, general crops, and about 60 acres
i'll peanuts. He has sold 945 acres of
woodland, but has plenty left.
Jasper Sudbury has Il beautiful place
formerly the home of DR.. J. c. Shep-
herd, and Newton Sudbury owns the
old home of EX-COngressman and Ma
jor G. w. McClammy. The largest
farm in the section is one mile from
ScOtt's Hill, by the A. c. l.. north, and
was formerly owned by Luke McClam-
my, father of the major, aud is now
he property of George \. Higgins,
who owns thousands of acres. Il. II.
Bryan, of SCOTS Hill, has 10 acres in
various crops; has a store; has lately
become attorney at law, and is quite
successful in real estate.
Hampstead, four miles away. has
no telegraph and no telephone. but is
the biggest shipper between Whining
ton and Jacksonville. 1t has Il station
without a waiting ROOM, and is called
a flag station, but nearly all passenger
trains stop because there's something
doing. 1t ships rOsin and turpentine,
lumber and cotton and hen fruit, and
brings in considerable merchandise.
Mrs. Rachel Howard OWNS the lots on
one side of the tract and d. Sanders
OH the other, and the surveyor is now
here to stop contention about Il dis
puted line.
ID. Sanders, who was born near
Hampstead, and for % years has had
his home in the village, is adding to
and improving his cottage, which was
the Jennett House away we a cen
fury ago, and Major McClammy said
he had ample proof of the fact tina
General Washington not only ate but
slept in that which is now the Sanders
home. Mr.. Sanders has thirty acres In
peanuts, three in potatoes and vii
have a number in corn, and he has g
little store he started fifteen years ago
and is apportioning half acre lots tt
make Hampstead grow.
w. b. Simmons has a busy saw mil
and about a dozen cottages at Hamp
stead, and is a regular hustler. Hi:
mill gets out $4,000 feet of boards pc
day for the Hannah Box Company, o.
Wilmington, and he has a store, AMI
will build a bigger one. He has ST,
horses and mules and eight oxen, an
sells and ships an A No. 1 potato bar
rel. He files, hammers and saws, an