Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 318
y knows just when this house cameinto being, but those who have searchedthrough very many old records have agreedthat it is the oldest house now in the city.This may well be, but, whether it is so ornot, it is beyond all question the oldest sur-vival of the Spring Valley Farm. Just across from the… … SPRING VALLEY FARM threaten, since they have shorn it of an ampleporch that once spread around three ofits sides. But its peaked roof and clap-boarded sides are still firm, and all the morepicturesque in the midst of the rigid brickwalls, great chimneys pouring out volumesof black smoke, and small…
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