The house in the picture is where I was born in 1946, which received electricity in 1951.
That brought back a flood of memories. The house in the picture is where I was born in 1946, which received electricity in 1951. I still remember the day the lights came on. The house section on the right was built in the 1700s and the one on the left in the mid-1800s. A description: 4,200 square feet, 14 rooms, 0 baths and 4 fireplaces.
The house burned in 1955 from a spark on the wood shingle roof. We tried to save what we could, and my father worked to save the new refrigerator while irreplaceable antiques and family heirlooms burned. The $100 he had paid for that refrigerator meant more, but it became wedged in a doorway and burnt.
We rebuilt in the same spot and lived there until 1971 when I built a new house closer to the main road.
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