Commencing on the Newport line going north-east.

The Henry LINE house.  It stood down in the fields to the right.  Henry LINE reared a large family of children and died here in 1849.  His son Henry resided here till about 1865, when the heirs sold the property and it has since been a tenant farm-house.  It belongs to a coal company.

The John R. LINE house.  On the left is the house of John R. LINE, the only son of Conrad LINE.  He lived here till about 1865, when he removed to Wilkes-Barre.  It belongs to a coal company and is only a tenant-house.

The ESPY house.  The house of John ESPY is next on the right.  He died here in 1843, leaving a family of six children.  The widow resided here till about 1849.  The heirs sold out about 1865 and since then it has been a tenant farm-house.  A new house has been built here.  On this farm along the Nanticoke branch of the L. & S. railroad at the foot of the mountain stands the village of some twenty or thirty houses, called Hanover, in Nanticoke Borough.

The KEITHLINE house.  The next on the left is John KEITHLINE's house, built by him about 1830.  He reared a large family of children here, then sold out, and, about 1865, nearly all of them went West.  He died in Hanover in 1868.  This is a tenant farm-house on lot No. 24, first division.

The next house on the left stands back from the Middle Road some rods.  This was the residence of James STEWART first, then Marmaduke PIERCE, who married his widow; afterwards it belonged to Robert ROBINS, and his son John lived in it for probably twenty years, and brought up a large family of children.  It has been a tenant farm-house since about 1865.  This is on lot No. 23, first division.

The next on the left are the RINEHIMER houses.  Conrad RINEHIMER, the first of the name here, reared a large family and died.  His son Peter built a house near by, and Conrad, another son, lived in the homestead.  Peter still lives here.  Conrad sold to his brother John and went West with his large family about 1853.  The old houses have disappeared and new ones replaced them.  Several building lots have been sold and houses built on this ground.

The next on the right - Mrs. ASH's house.  This has long been the property of John DEETS, and a new house replaced the old one many years ago.

The next house is also on the right.  This is John SORBER's house.  He has lived here it about forty years, brought up a large family of children, and is now a very old man.

On the right, on the brow of the hill, stood the old BOBB house.  [John] BOBB sold out and the whole family, a large one, went West to Iowa about 1838.  A new part was built to this house about 1840, and is the only part now standing, the old house having rotted down and been torn away within the past twenty years.  It has been a tenant farm-house since about 1840, and for about thirty-five years Daniel MINNICH has lived in it.  It belongs to a coal company.  This is on lot No. 16, first division.

Next on the right is the HOLCOMB house.  This was formerly - previous to 1837 - known as the SHAFER house.  HOLCOMB owned and lived in it from about 1837 to 1865.  He sold out and went West.  Since then it has been a tenant farm-house, and belongs to a coal company.  This is on lot No. 15 and part of 14, first division.

The next house was on the left.  Daniel MINNICH built a log-house on his father's land here about 1838.  It was abandoned and went to ruin in about twenty years.  This was on lot No. 13, first division.

On the right, on the cross-road, but a few rods from the Middle Road, was the ASKAM house.  He [William ASKAM] lived here a long time and reared six children.  He sold out to Jacob SHAFER, and the old log-house was torn down and about 1850 a frame house was built on the site of the old one.  This last has been a tenant-house since about 1855.  It belongs to a coal company.  The ASKAMs have all gone away.  This is on lot 12, first division.

On this same land, on the left of the Middle Road, is the house of Levi L. NYHART.  It was built in 1850, and he has residied here ever since.

The stone house on the right comes next.  John NAGLE had a tannery here, at the foot of the hill, about 1830 to 1835.  Joseph NYHART bought the tannery and carried it on from 1845 to 1855.  R.R. METCALF has some fine buildings on this tannery property now.  There is a postoffice here called Askam.  Wm. RUMMAGE owned the stone house.  This lot was purchased by J. M. COURTRIGHT, house lots were sold and some dozen or more buildings have been erected since 1870.  This is on lot No. 11, first division.

On the cross-road towards [George] BEHEE's Mill were two houses belonging to Rebecca THOMAS.  They have long since rotted down.  George SHOEMAKER bought six acres of Rebecca THOMAS here about 1838 and built a house that still stands as a tenant-house, SHOEMAKER having sold out about 1855 and gone away from the township.  It belongs to a coal company.

On the left of the main road after passing the old tannery, is the METCALF house.  This seems to have been a tenant-house until about 1848, when Richard METCALF made it his home and has resided there ever since.  Soon after coming here to live, he tore down the old house and built a good sized frame house.  The land belongs to a coal company.  Several building lots were given to Mr. METCALF's children along the road here, and they have houses erected on them.

On the right in a lane out of sight of the main road is the old Rufus BENNETT house.  Here was brought up a large family of children by BENNETT.  They are all dispersed, no one knows where.  About 1838 O. COLLINS of Wilkes-Barre, became the owner of the property, and from that time it has been a tenant farm-house, and there is not a BENNETT of this family left in the township.  The old house stands yet.  It belongs to a coal company.

The old house next on the left was the WIGGINS house.  He was the iron maker at Nanticoke.  This house was sold and left by [Silas] WIGGINS about 1834 - never had any tenants afterwards, and rotted down in about ten years.

The next was on the left, a tenant-house of John HOOVER.  HOOVER's residence was between the Middle and the Back Road on this same land.  HOOVER built himself a new house about 1846 near the old one, and died here in 1866.  The old and new house both stand, and are rented as tenant farm-houses.  They belong to a coal company.

North-east of the John HOOVER house, and in the same hollow between the Middle and Back Road stood a house belonging to Michael HOOVER.  It was old fifty years ago.  Michael HOOVER's family left it about 1835, and it never had tenants of any account afterwards, and rotted down about 1845.  It belonged to V.L. MAXWELL for many years.  It belongs to a coal company.  The house was never rebuilt.

On the left, off the main road ten or twenty rods, is the old [Edward] EDGERTON house.  This house still stands and is used as a tenant-house.  The EDGERTONs long lived here, either the one or the other of them.  They sold out about 1864, and removed to the West.  The property belongs to a coal company.  This is No. 11, second division.

The Henry HOOVER house was on the right opposite to the HOOVER Hill school-house.  It rotted down about 1850 and there are no HOOVERs left in the township.  The land belongs to a coal company.

On the left at the foot of the hill an old house stood - a tenant-house till about 1855, when it was torn down and two double miner's tenant-houses were built here.  They still stand and are occupied by miners.  They belong to a coal company.

On the right is the earlier [Bateman] DOWNING house.  This has been a tenant farm-house for more than fifty years.  With the rest of the DOWNING property, it belongs to a coal company.

Across the creek and on the left is the RUGGLES house.  Lorenzo RUGGLES reared a large family of children here.  He was a blacksmith and with his farming and blacksmithing made a comfortable fortune.  He sold out to a coal company in 1864, and removed to Wilkes-Barre.  This has since been a tenant-house.

The next on the right is the later DOWNING house.  Here Bateman DOWNING resided more than forty years, and was a justice of the peace for about the same length of time.  He sold to a coal company in 1864, and in his old age removed to the West.  This has been a tenant farm-house since 1864-5.

The next is on the left, the old Jacob FISHER house.  Here was reared another large family of children.  On the death of FISHER, his heirs sold the large body of land about 1855, which their father and themselves had accumulated and all emigrated to the West.  This has since been a tenant farm-house.  It now belongs to a coal company.

The next is the Samuel BURRIER house on the right.  He sold out about 1846 and went West.  This has since been a tenant-house.  It still stands, and belongs to a coal company.

On the right on the cross-road are two or three rather old houses - one was Henry FISHER's, one was Samuel SMILEY's and the other owner is not remembered.  These are standing yet and are occupied as tenant farm-houses.  They belong to a coal company.

William SHOEMAKER had a house where he lived a long time, off in the fields, east of the cross-road.  He removed to a house on the Middle Road about 1848, or perhaps 1850.

The next is on the left on the main road - the Simon RINEHIMER house.  This house first belonged to Joseph GEORGE, a tailor.  Simon RINEHIMER, another tailor, bought it and lived in it until his death in 1858.  He left a large family of children, all but one gone West.  It is a tenant-house.

The next house is on the left.  The old house went to decay and the owner, Wm. SHOEMAKER, tore it away and built a brick residence in nearly the same place in 1848.  SHOEMAKER soon after sold out and with his whole family went West.  This is a tenant-house.  It belongs to a coal company.

The next house is also on the left - the John E. INMAN house.  INMAN reared a large family of children here, and with the whole of them went West about 1855, after selling his land.  This has ever since been a tenant farm-house.  It belongs to a coal company.

The DEERHAMER house was next on the right.  They went West many years before the INMANs.  It has since been a tenant-house.  This is now a Catholic cemetery.

The next house is on the left in the hollow, and is the Christian NAGLE house.  NAGLE reared a large family of children here and died in 1857.  His heirs sold it out and removed, nearly all of them to the West.  It is a tenant-house.  It belongs to a coal company.

On the hill-top on the left hand side and on the corner of the cross-road from Ashley, "Fritz" [Frederick] DETERICK built a brick residence about 1848, and died there.  This is a tenant-house.  It is on lot No. 5, first division.

The next house is on the left, near Solomon's Creek, at the Wilkes-Barre line.  This is the QUICK house.  Thomas QUICK came here about 1810, lived here until he grew old, and died at his son's home in Wilkes-Barre in 1866.  This is on lot No. 1, first division.  The old house is gone and a new one is in its place - a tenant-house.

There is a little house belonging to QUICK a few rods west of the QUICK residence, that was long occupied by Avery HURLBUT, a son-in-law of QUICK's.  It was a tenant-house.

On the right on the cross-road is PETTY's Mill, and a house finely situated on a hill, built about 1840 by Philip ABBOTT.  It soon afterwards became the property of PETTY, who owned the mill and died here about 1860.