Hope Hollow
Well, surprise, surprise. We were not the first to go on long walks in Hope Hollow!
(Gordon, why did you call it “Minnie Lynn’s Hollow?“)Here is a picture of those who came before us:
Left to right
Annabelle KLINK, Dessie LEWIS, Virginia COLEBANK, Osborne BAKER, Quinter, BAKER
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Well, surprise, surprise. We were not the first to go on long walks in Hope Hollow!
(Gordon, why did you call it “Minnie Lynn’s Hollow?“)Here is a picture of those who came before us:
Left to right
Annabelle KLINK, Dessie LEWIS, Virginia COLEBANK, Osborne BAKER, Quinter, BAKER
Email:trumpcard1@gmail.com
6 comments:
I called it Minnie Lynn's Hollow because that is what it is. This is not Hope Hollow. My Dad who is in the background of this picture said it was taken in Minnie Lynn's Hollow that was right across the road from the Baker home. He said they were having a picnic. Hope Hollow ran from Shibler (on Rt. 119) down over the hill to Nilan coming out at Nilan at the tunnel.
Oh, ok. I do know where Minnie Lynn lived. Mother and I used to go over there to visit. Now how were they related to the Bradigan's?
Late in life Minnie Lynn married Bradigan. Can't recall his first name. He then took her money and built the brick home. Before that the Lynns lived in a big log house just to the left of where the brick house stands today. Carl Weber bought the brick house in the 1940's.
Now I remember his name. It was Frank Bradigan. He came to the area with the coal company that stripped the coal up behind the Lynn farm. Between the Lynns and Fallen Timbers Road. There was a dinky train that ran from the stip mine along the hill side behind the Board house and around the hill to Greater Point Marion where they had a tipple and dumped the coal into rail road cards. By the way do you know that the creek running down this hollow to the river is called Millstone Run.
Gee, you know so much more history than I. Frank Bradigan once came and plowed Mother's garden, I am sure out of the goodness of his heart.
I have wondered for years who owned those hills around where the Board's lived and those across from Becky Blosser's (Kissinger's)
Where did the Lynn's make their money?
I am not sure who all that hill behind the Boards. I know some was owned by the Jennings. I think some was owned by a man named Cowell who lived over in Greater Point Marion. I know my Dad said that Cowell farmed on the top of the hill across from the Bakers. I am not sure if the Lynns owned the land where the coal was stripped or if some of it was owned by the Clemmers on Fallen Timbers Road. My Dad told me that he was told that one of the steam shovels used in the strip job had been used on the Panama Canal dig.
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