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Photographer: Michael Herrick
Taken: November 10, 2009
Caption: Homestead Map
Additional Description: [ detail from the marker ]
The views highlighted in red on this map, ca. 1855, includes the location of John Jay II’s house and formal garden prior to his inheriting the Homestead. You may look at the view from the hill or the front lawn.

Archeological excavation revealed that the base of the tennis court was constructed by placing layers of cinders and coal ash, item in plentiful supply as waste from the Homestead’s heating system, over a layer of rock and sand.
Submitted: November 21, 2009, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
Database Locator Identification Number: p86507
File Size: 0.042 Megabytes

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