Wendy's Road: Rice, Welcome, Cesan Place, Granville, Massachusetts
Title
Wendy's Road: Rice, Welcome, Cesan Place, Granville, Massachusetts
Description
This farm was the home of Hannah Rice, later belonging to the Welcome family and currently to the Cesan family.
Here is David Cesan's history of the place (2020):
"This old house once stood on North Lane One or Wendy's Way today. The road was laid out during the Civil War and sadly several years ago the Town of Granville voted to abandon the road so it is no longer maintained.
In going through old Deeds and the 1894 Atlas the property was once owned by a Hannah Rice. It was a farm and she lived here.
My grandfather Ernest Welcome from Westfield bought the property in 1946 and the house was burned in 1978 along with the Darling's camp and the Bak camp all on the same road. Hull has just timbered the Bak property.
I would like to learn more about Hannah Rice as she must have been a tough cookie to have lived way out there and somehow carved an existence on her very rural property.
Photos of our camp as it once was, now just a cellar hole. My grandparents Ernest and Flora on the right and Ernest and his grand niece on the steps of the camp."
Picture 1: Front of the house.
Picture 2: Ernest and Flora Welcome on the right
Picture 3: Ernest Welcome and his grand niece.
Picture 4: 1912 Granville map showing location of the Rice place (15 acres).
Here is David Cesan's history of the place (2020):
"This old house once stood on North Lane One or Wendy's Way today. The road was laid out during the Civil War and sadly several years ago the Town of Granville voted to abandon the road so it is no longer maintained.
In going through old Deeds and the 1894 Atlas the property was once owned by a Hannah Rice. It was a farm and she lived here.
My grandfather Ernest Welcome from Westfield bought the property in 1946 and the house was burned in 1978 along with the Darling's camp and the Bak camp all on the same road. Hull has just timbered the Bak property.
I would like to learn more about Hannah Rice as she must have been a tough cookie to have lived way out there and somehow carved an existence on her very rural property.
Photos of our camp as it once was, now just a cellar hole. My grandparents Ernest and Flora on the right and Ernest and his grand niece on the steps of the camp."
Picture 1: Front of the house.
Picture 2: Ernest and Flora Welcome on the right
Picture 3: Ernest Welcome and his grand niece.
Picture 4: 1912 Granville map showing location of the Rice place (15 acres).
Contributor
Digital images donated by David Cesan, October 2020. Used here with permission.
Rights
Digital Images: Copyright David Cesan, 2020
Collection
Citation
“Wendy's Road: Rice, Welcome, Cesan Place, Granville, Massachusetts,” Granville History Digital Collection, accessed April 25, 2024, https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1255.
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