Stephen (The Farmer) MacDonald (Georgeville\BLDW_518.html)

 

This is a house site south of the Main Road (Hwy 337) near Georgeville.  It is on an access road surrounded by abandoned vehicles and equipment.  Stephen (the Farmer) MacDonald lived there.  He had no wife or children of his own, but adopted two boys: Joe and Charlie Novak.  The house was abandoned in the 1960s.  A Miss Chisholm (a niece?) inherited it and gave the land to the Church.

 

To save time we did not measure the cellar.  The following are photographs of it.  Bernie argued that because the cellar was built with well selected and roughly dressed stone rather than with “boulders” it was built later in the 19th century, perhaps 1880s.

 

The use of small set stones and the maintenance of level, but not continuous courses indicates more skilled work.

 

 

Georgeville, May 20, 2008.