The Piedmont Section 



covered the entire bottom, washing the land and exposing not only 

 the smoked stones that had been used around the campfires of 

 General Greene's soldiers, but the remains of some of the old 

 revolutionary muskets, as well as bullets, bullet-moulds and lead. 

 Incidentally, the fact that these pieces of equipment were left, would 

 indicate that the retreat of General Greene's men to the higher flat- 

 land adjoining the bottoms was due to fire from across the river 

 as well as to the rising water. The high water that occurred at 

 this time evidently buried these articles, and succeeding freshets 

 covered them deeper and deeper, until they were between three and 

 four feet under ground. The successive layers of this covering 

 were clearly discernible when the freshet of 1896 scoured the land 

 away down to the original level of the date of General Greene's 

 crossing. 



It may be of interest to remark that at the time of General 

 Greene's crossing the land on which he camped was a clover field. 

 This fact was evidenced from the circumstance that after this three 

 to four feet of earth was washed away the land soon became 

 covered with clover, sprouted from the seed that had lain buried 

 for over a century — incidentally proving that the seeds of some 

 plants retain their vitality indefinitely if sufficiently far under the 

 surface of the soil. 



The original house was made entirely of hewed lumber, even 

 the flooring having been made of puncheons split out of logs from 

 the original forest. Some of these puncheons are still in place. 

 The oldest part of the house was added to some time before the 

 Revolutionary War. The laths were rived, and the nails used to 

 fasten them were made one; by one, by hand, in a blacksmith shop. 

 Grass was used as a binder for the plaster. In about 1806 the so- 

 called "new part" was added. The gable end of this part, with 

 the outside chimney, is shown in one of the views of the north side 

 of the house. The last addition, which is shown with the porch 

 extending around it, was made by the present owner in 19 11. 



On the west side of the house is the garden, which is still sur- 



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