With the coming of the canal boats and cheaper freight rates, the fireplaces die quietly, replaced with cast iron stoves.
This home like most others of similar plans has a roomy kitchen built onto
the back where much of the winter was spent, huddled close to the huge
kitchen hearth.
This lovely old home was the residence of Jonathan Banes who came to
Franklin County in 1837 with the Wilcox & Van Horn Construction Co. of
Pennsylvania. Banes was a carpenter superintendent on several sections
of the canal below Brookville and for this work he was paid in horses (paper
money was not to be trusted in the 1840s). These horses were then
driven back to Pennsylvania and sold.
In 1845 Mr. Banes erected a cotton factory on the site of the Metamora
Grist Mill. Jonathan Banes married Maria Mount, daughter of David
Mount (the town's first settler). When David Mount died, Jonathan inherited
the Mount family homestead which encompasses the south fields behind the
village and is today known as the Wilson Pennington Farm. |
