Baden's First 100 YearsPage Ten
OTHER FARMS OF LONG AGOOf course, I have not lived long enough to know personally all I am about to tell you. Yet, after all, most of the many things we know in life is what some one has told us. Take myself for instance, I would not know the day of my birth if my parents had not told me, and yet I was present at the time. THE DUNN FARM. To begin, I would like to take you to Remington-known to most of you as Conway. The place in question is the William Dunn farm. The old brick residence still stands, but just a shadow of its former splendor and broad acres. Mr. Dunn wa a planter on quite an extensive scale. A large part of the land now used by the Pennsylvania Railroad yards was cultivated by him in growing vegetables. He employed as high as 25 men during the busy season. Most of his production was marketed in Pittsburgh. I was told by one man, still living, who worked for him, that during the busy season, the market train would be held as long as one-half hour, while being loaded with vegetables from this farm. Mr. Dunn was considered one of the valley's real planters, outside of the Neville Island growers, who raised acres of vegetables and sent them to Pittsburgh by boat. But, after the trains and steamboats became more plentiful, this business was wrested from the Northern growers, and planters of the South with their longer seasons and improved shipping facilities. Mr. Dunn's home was one of the show places of the valley. The grounds were very beautifully laid out-planted with shrubs and stately fir and pine trees. A large fish pond full of fish adorned the grounds, and many large and lordly pea fowl strutted in all their splendor beneath the trees. I remember, as a child, when the opportunity afforded, I would peep through the white picket fence and almost hold my breath in awe. Mr. Dunn was the father of eight children-William, Thomas, George, Katie, Marie, Rose, Ernie and Jennie. THE JOHN CUMMINGS FARM. The next place was the John Cummings farm. Mr. Cummings was a grower, but not on as large a scale as Mr. Dunn. The old Cummings home still stands. It is the old red brick house standing at the left side of the street as you are coming from Conway, at what is now called Brownsdale. This house was built in 1856. This date was given me by a man who said it was
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