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This Chateuesque-style home on Adamstownâs Main Street was built in 1912 with the scale and details grand enough to house the children of a hosiery mill magnate.
Decades later, new owners turned the duplex into one big home.
The property, with its nine bedrooms, original woodwork, salt water pool and a peacock aviary, is on the market for $829,900. The nearly 8,000-square-foot home has original details and modern upgrades.
A portrait of Parley Parker Pratt.
Image courtesy of the Utah State Historical Society
Parley Parker Pratt was the third son out of five born to Jared and Charity Pratt on April 12, 1807, in Burlington, New York. Jared was a weaver by trade, but due to the changes caused by the Industrial Revolution, he worked on a farm as an unskilled laborer and made very little money. Charity taught Parley scripture lessons which became his first introduction to religion. Parley mostly worked on a farm to contribute to his family’s finances and had very little formal schooling. At the age of 15, Parley left home for good.
Reflections: Letter to the editor from 1874
By Evelyn Long - Contributing Columnist
I love reading letters to the editor from years past. Writers held nothing back and at the same time the editors printed their thoughts.
I want to share this letter written to Editor Brown, The Independent, and published May 21, 1874.
“Mr Editor:
We have a railroad in operation and two more in our mind’s eye.
We have a navagable river (for turtles); We have a beautiful park to look at but not to walk in;
We have a grand school house, with a first class corps of teachers; We have under construction, a large brick church; We have factories and foundries, mills and warehouses; We have stores of all kinds, and the very best market for produce and provisions in Ohio;