Christine and Collie MacDonald, brother and sister, were the last to live at this site. Christine was probably the last living person to have resided on Brown’s Mountain. One of the stories she told Charlie was about being alone in the house as a teenager with her younger sister when a drunken neighbour from the north dropped by and began eyeing them and “talking dirty.” They were rescued when their brother returned and threatened to split the man from end to end with an axe.

This site is on the east side of the road leading north, while the Church Map has a C. MacDonald on the west side near this location.

The foundation is roughly square (23 by 24ft) with the 24 ft. side oriented at 348º (i.e. north-south). The shallow cellar was dug on the west half. The house may have faced downhill towards the road or south towards the sun.

These paired pictures are looking north.

May 25, 2015