The barn and house below was my Granddad's first farm that he purchased around 1937 when my Dad was 14 years old. We went to see it in July 2009.  My dad said that it sill had the original paint job on the barn. We asked him how he knew this and he pointed to the front of the barn where the worn paint was two different worn shades below the window. He said that the ladder that they had back in 1940 or so only went up to the front window opening so that is as far as they painted. Sure enough, the paint job that he did back then was still visible. The house in the pictures that follow are the same as when my Granddad bought the farm .

My Granddad moved into the house with 10 kids, the oldest being 15-16 years old. He received about $1,800 bonus of some type from when he was in the Navy and put it down on the $3,500 cost of the 75 acre farm.

Previously, the family had lived in many different places in Philadelphia while my granddad worked on a seasonal job installing heating systems during the winter.

They sold this farm about 5 years later when he bought the 250 acre farm in Hamburg, PA.