This is the Giffen family farm that I grew up on. We moved here in 1976. I470 went through above the house (where the tires are piled) when I was in college in the 1980's. My brother has built a wood shop as big as the house above the garden. The roads going off to the upper right corner lead up to "High Ridge," the highest ridge in the area. It sat on this farm.
My grandfather, James Franklin Giffen, was born in this house. He was a Belmont County Commissioner for two terms. His father bought it around 1908 from the Feely family; the same family who deeded land to the High Ridge Church where the cemetery sits. My g-grandmother's sister married a Feely also. This was originally part of the Johnson farm.

The tires and equipment in the top left corner of this photograph are the clearing and leveling for the Wheeling Bypass, I470.