Tourism). Some of the older frame houses still standing in Stanhope include Ray Carr’s; the Alexanders’ “Erinville”, later Herb Kielly’s; David Lawson’s “Mount J 0y”, now owned by Lawrence and Jean Quick; Kiloran Lodge; and the “Dollery Farm”. Wooden houses must have

seemed strange to our first Scottish settlers, coming from a land where houses, crofts and barns were built of stone.

Outhouse

sketch by Vicki Allen Cook

“What a place to relax, sitting on the throne, not a sound to be heard, only a few birds chirping; and with the door open, a squirrel would be running on the ground, stop, look in, and continue on his way!”

F. Rundell Seaman

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