Farm - I sold so I could beggin my New Journey

Here is some information about our farm! 
The house is 6,038 square feet! Which includes a nice cellar that will be perfect for storing food longer. We are currently in the process of gutting and redoing the entire house and once it is done we will move on to doing work on the other buildings preparing them for future use. This will be a slow process but I will be updating this album as progress is made :)

The house sits on 7.6 acres and has unlimited free gas to the house. There is also a small pond on the property, a wooden garage, a small brick building with a concrete floor, a corn crept with a lean two, and a metal workshop on sleds. All of the land is good usable land that is fairly flat and will make great pasture/garden space.

The home is made of 100% hand made brick that was made on the property by David Simmons. The construction of the house was started before the Civil War but is not documented (therefore not taxed) as completed until the 1870s (post civil war). There was once a couple smaller hand made brick slave quarters on the property but they became no more than brick piles while the property was owned by my grandpa and has since been cleaned up. The property was once in the Simmons/Hall family but was later sold to my Grandpa and Grandma. My mom and her sister and brother were then raised in the house and on the property until they moved out on their own and my grandpa owned it up until last year when he passed away and it went to my uncle. I am now the owner of the property as of September 22nd as a result of a contract my Grandpa made when signing the property over to my uncle. The Hall family still owns a lot of the surrounding property around the house.

The house is made primarily of brick which is 3 layers thick and all the interior walls are made of brick as well. There is a very low crawl space under the house but it is not accessible in most areas due to how little space is left in there.

There is a section in a book called At Home In Freemansburg, West Virginia written by Helen Hall Garret and Betty Robinson Sorrentino where I found out about some of the history of this house.


After doing some work on this property it became clear it was more than I could handle so I made the tough decision to sell this farm and buy one more ready to move into. I hope you can follow along on our new journey.