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Bellingham Bill
2015 Jan 11, 2:23pm
Bellingham Bill
2015 Jan 11, 2:23pm
Here's another pic from the 1871 Thomas Co atlas I'm looking at now:
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Tenpoundbass
2015 Jan 11, 5:14pm
Tenpoundbass
2015 Jan 11, 5:14pm
History is so full of crap.
Here the Tollhouse Cookie legend make it sound like they were some fly by night mom and pop operation that haphazardly stumbled upon a great cookie recipe that saved the farm. He was running shit up in there. They better like his damned cookies or he'd cut off their credit at the company store.
So I was wondering who the hell C.A. Yancey was . . .
http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/cayhist.htm
He then came to Toll House and bought a claim of about 900 acres and built a hotel 18 x 90 feet, with a dining room 20 x 40 feet, and he has since built up the town around him-consisting of six dwellings, box factory 30 x 80 feet, blacksmith shop, store and the necessary barns and outbuildings, all of which he owns and rents. He is ever ready to build for a renter, but says he has nothing to sell.
Mr. Yancey went there without a dollar in ready cash, and the results speak volumes for his enterprise and business sagacity. He carries on general farming and all the deciduous fruits grow to advantage.