The Three North Rooms

These three rooms were a later addition to the original building. They were built for Emma Partridge Carson, John's second wife. All nine of her children were born here and partly raised in these rooms. Later they occupied some of the other rooms, and the big north room was used as a storeroom. Emma said she could remember tables with sacks of flour stacked high. There were slabs of home-cured bacon, hams and shoulders - all smoked and home-cured, hanging around the walls. In her later years this room was carpeted with home-made rag carpet; the walls were whitewashed, and it was used as her bedroom for awhile and always for a sitting room in the summer, as it was so nice and cool. Today the furnishings are of the period of its earliest history, with a nursery, bedroom, and sitting room.

View of the Living Room

Closeup of "Family of John and Elvira Carson" prepared by David H. Carson.

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