Todd House

my grandfather Addison D Hills owned this house I have been in it dozens of times loved to explore it and the grounds

Know it very well I lived there as a child. When we first lived there the upstairs was rented out during picking and canning time with migrants working for Ken McCoy's tomato cannery. When the cannery closed we had the whole house. My dad (Joe Wheeler) worked for Addison at one time. The house had 4 large room down and 4 up. There was a porch that ran around 2 sides of the house. This picture shows a lot of trees, we did have a yard on both sides to play in. My sister & I had fun playing on the rocks piled along 2 sides of the yard. Loved climbing the hill side too. No water, the well that was there was not drinkable. Dad carried 5-gallon cream cans from town for drinking, cooking and bathing. In the bedroom my sister & I shared we had an oil stove and a coal/wood stove in the kitchen. No heat upstairs so it was closed off during the winter and I had a bedroom up stairs during the summer. I loved that old house I have pictures, a wall painting and saw blade paintings and newspaper pictures of it.

I thought I had heard that this house was part of the Underground Railroad back in the days when slaves were trying to move north? Is this true?