Photo 20-DRO-9

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The John Robinson Farmstead at 1322 Anderson Station Road. His father was the lone casualty in Nathaniel Massie's "Battle of Reeve's Crossing" near future Bainbridge in 1795, two skirmishes with a band of Shawnees on the cusp of settlement of this part of Ohio.

The house is recorded to have been built by Robinson about 1830, and the main barn is probably early 20th century. The abandoned CH&D / B&O railroad behind it along the North Fork of Paint Creek is now the Adena Recreational Trail.

See also 1978 photos 19-PRO-34, 20-PRO-1, 2, and 3, as well as the next photo, and 1984's 26-YRO-3 (the aerial photographers seem to like this farmstead, or were paid for repeat visits). The house (at least a photo of its rear and its floorplan) is noted on pages 114-115 of "The American Farmhouse," by Henry J. Kauffman (1975).

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