Topographical Sketch and Existing Conditions of the 

 Premises and Vicinity ♦ 



As the writer sits at his desk and looks out upon the 

 busy, bustling scenes of today, he stops to ponder over the 

 great changes which have taken place since we came here from 

 the country, twenty-six years ago. At that time nearly all the 

 surrounding property was vacant land. Immediately west was 

 a large bottom-land pasture field where I spent many happy 

 boyhood days, playing Indian and building wigwams of the 

 growing iron-weeds. This field is now occupied by the yards, 

 depots, shops and storage buildings of the Waynesburg and 

 Washington railroad. South of these grounds is Tenmile 

 creek, a beautiful stream, a hundred and twenty-five feet wide, 

 the banks of which were once lined with giant elms, syca- 

 mores and maples, forming a beautiful canopy, but now re- 

 placed by a row of dingy ice-houses. One hundred feet east of 

 our place is Morgan street, and east of this street and extend- 

 ing back to the creek, are the grounds of the Waynesburg Fair 

 Association, now being laid out for buildng lots. Opposite 

 these grounds, on the south side of the creek, between Luse's 

 Hill and Duvall's Hill, lies Smith creek, a tributary of Ten- 

 mile, coming in from the south Much of this section was cov- 

 ered with timber, which has almost entirely disappeared, being 

 replaced on the sloping side of Luce's Hill and in the valley 

 with numerous dwellings and some steam works. Duvall's Hill 

 at some points is almost perpendicular, barely permitting foot- 

 ing for the trees. Some of the old trees are still standing, but 

 the greater part of the face of the bluff has been changed by 

 workmen quarrying stone. 



North of our place the ground rises gently toward the cen- 

 tral part of town, and much of this, twenty years ago, was farm- 

 ed. Now all the streets are opened and the section is built up 

 closely with residences and business buildings. 



On our premises we have two business buildings on the 



