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DANS HILL
River, covering an area of about sixteen hundred
acres, is the ancestral home of the Wilson family,
the present owner, Robert Wilson James, being
the fifth generation in direct descent to have
lived oe
The first member of the family, John Wilson, settled here
during the Revolutionary period, and the present house, with the
numerous outbuildings, consisting of stables, carriage- -house, in
which the old four-horse coach was kept, the weaving-house, where
expert weavers in former days made the homespun worn by the
house servants and farm hands, a laundry room, dairy, smoke¬
house, icehouses, kitchen with huge fireplace in which a person
could easily stand, and the several log cabins for servants’ quarters
were built by Robert Wilson. ‘These were in course of construc¬
tion about eight years and were completed in 1833. All of the
bricks used in these buildings were made on the estate and the
lumber was cut from the native forest; both are still in a good
state of preservation.
The residence is a spacious three-story brick structure of the
Colonial type, containing twenty rooms, and furnished with the
original mahogany furniture placed there years ago. The present
owners, Robert Wilson James and his wife, who was Miss Irene
Dwyer, of Ohio, have recently installed in this home all the modern
conveniences, consisting of heat, electric lights, bathrooms, and an
up-to-date refrigerating plant, making it, in addition to its tradi¬
tional charms and general beauty, one of the most comfortable
homes possible.
A fireside grouping in the drawing-room shows the beautiful
old imported marble mantel and the brass fender and andirons. The
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