Sunday, November 13, 2011

Yes. It is a Rock.



This is a very special stone.
It was part of the Stone House on Naaman's Road where Grace was born in 1918.

When her kids were growing up, the house was known as “Corson's”, presumably the name of the people who lived there at the time. It was a nice looking stone farmhouse then.

The house was torn down when Naaman's Road was widened, but before it was completely gone, Grace rescued this stone so that her birthplace was not entirely obliterated.

Nils and Gerda Kwick and family moved there from Chester sometime between 1910 and 1918.

Late in her life Grace wrote:
"The stories about the time in the old house on Naaman's Road are many and varied. My father, who I think was by that time working on the Delaware River, probably on a dredge … bought this old dilapidated house with a lot of land and then told my mother. When he took her to see it she said she wouldn't move into that house, but it was a done deal so they moved into it. Stories go that the window sills were piled with manure to keep the wind out. Anyway, Pop had a crew from the boat come out and clean it up before they actually moved in."

Here is picture from before much was done with the house.

By the very early 1920's, the Kwicks had moved across the road to a new house that Nils built.

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