Mercer, Henry Chapman, 1856-1930 · Doylestown, The Bucks County historical society · leaf 131
es Logan,the I. L. of the initials, who built the house in 1728. and prob-ably set up the firebacks, was one of the original owners ofDurham Furnace, founded by hm and others in 1727, the yearbefore, and would not have had hs firebacks cast elsewhere in1728, and lastly, because Mr, Fackenthals chcm… … Dated 1734 and with its floral festoons somewhat resem-bling the Stenton fireback. Figure 209. the plate was said tohave been found about 1895, set as a date plate in the outergable of an old house about one m.le from Valley Forge, for-merly the headquarters of the American General, Lord…
Stoves · Stove-plates · Pennsylvania Dutch
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