Keeping Things Light and Fun

 Happy Tuesday all.  Glad to have you here and hope all are well.  I know many are taking a break from Blogs and computer things - so this week, it will just be light info.  Next week as well, for whatever I do post.  

We will get back to learning, sharing and trading info after the new year.

It is cool this morning, the moon was vibrant, and the sunrise was a beautiful sky painting.  It isn't raining or snowing - I am happy!

I mentioned the old home my friend and I got to tour a week ago Sunday.  It has only changed hands 2 or 3 times since the early 1800's.  The folks who built it were quite wealthy, and they did care for and help slaves.  They had to be quite vigilant to be stealthy about such things or they would have been arrested and probably hanged.  There are many, many miles of tunnels under our city on all parts of towns - some say they all connected at some point.  There is rumor that they connect with the tunnels a few miles away (still fairly close to me - but north) that are under a very famous historical bar downtown called the Slippery Noodle. 

The house and the street are named after the original owner (Hanna)

Many say the house is haunted (hence why they do Halloween stuff there - that angers me).  If ever a place might be - I can see this would be.  As to not draw attention, many are said to be buried under the basement floor.  They had a huge coal chute, as they received a lot of supplies that way as well.

An older picture - see the windmill towards the right back side of the house?  There are the remains of that still there.  It kind of looks like it may have been toppled by a tornado.  

Today. Much the same.  Oh how I wish I was rich.  It needs a ton of work on the back half of the house and even inside the tour-able part.  It would be glorious to fix it up and to live there.  Now it is just for tours and events - no one lives there. It is on historic register.

The old canning is still there.  You can still tell exactly what is in each jar - no one has lived here or canned for decades.

It was really a deep basement.  Standing on the cement floor - I could not touch the ceiling.  So it was made really deep on purpose!

Not that it is obvious, but up close you can see where the tunnel was.  Behind the canning racks.  The racks were built to block it off - as many tunnels have collapsed. Right above the jugs sitting on the floor - you can see it is actually stone and not cement block - that was the tunnel area.  That floor area you see - is where they say the burials happened.  It is the one area of the basement that has cement (deep cement).  The rest is dirt floors.

It really has a weird eerie feeling down there.

 One of the only original pieces of furniture in the home.  Isn't that bed something?  This was thought to be the bedroom for the original owners.  Most every room had a fireplace in it.

Windows were so tall - I bet at least 8' tall.  There were picture rails in every room.  Ceilings at least 10' tall if not higher.  The original ceiling lights are in place - but have been converted to electric.

Can you imagine heating all that?

They even had a separate room for bathing! 

Well, I thought you might enjoy a tour as well.  It was kind of fun.  Years ago (over 30+), Glen and I actually got to tour the entire home - both front and back wings and the attic.  It was in much better shape back then.

Just a fun little tour of a site close to my home.  Not even 10 minutes from me.  I have lived in this area all my life, and always knew about this place and drove by from the earliest times I can remember.

Kind of neat to have such history so close.  I bet many people live in areas that have a lot of history that they never get to know.

I also live just blocks from the oldest city park in the area as well.

Well, there you go.  A little view into the past and a little history of the area I live.  Hope you enjoyed it.

Have a glorious day and share a smile and a kind word if possible!

My daily Christmas picture!