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Photo 118-NSO-7

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THIS IS INDEED OUR HOME BEFORE THE REMODELING IN 1994-1997, WHICH ADDED A WRAP AROUND PORCH AND EXPANDED THE UPSTAIRS OF THE 4-BEDROOM FARMHOUSE BUILT IN THE YEAR 1900. THE ORIGINAL OAK STAIRCASE STILL EXISTS.
Notes: Many trees on the left rear were lost during a tornado in 2009. The tree cluster on the right still exists. The ones on the right (at the left edge of the fields) are lost, but the front driveway has beautiful Bedford Pears.
(The links for the latter photos after remodeling are at the end.)
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Finally, the search paid off. Your maps showing the flight route and the associated film rolls helped. In one such film roll, I was looking at a neighbor's house and recognized the pond adjacent to our farm in the background. I looked at the entire roll several times and recognized two historic homes and also the horse stalls on our farm. I was looking at the chicken houses (because a very few are left) and recognized one up the road and then turned around. Volla!!!!
I had seen a 1980's photo someplace and an aerial (bad) photo in the State/County's land records. So, I knew the locations of the long gone (thank goodness for that) two HUGE chicken houses. One of them was located what is our second driveway to Old Westover-Marion Road, which has Cyprus Trees on one side and Wine Red Crape Myrtles on the other. There is still a concrete pad, with bolts, and we had wondered what it might have been for. As can be seen on the far right corner there is a silo/reservoir for grain/feed storage for the chickens and the support for it must have been bolted down on the concrete pad.
There is another chicken house at 90-degrees from this one and there is also a silo for chicken feed. On the concrete pad, there is a basket ball court now. Right front of that is a gravel area connecting to the main driveway to Kingston Lane. Somerset County Planning and Zoning folks, in a recent, meeting told me that it must have been made for the chicken trucks to be able to turn around.

So... This is it... I have finally found the oldest aerial photograph of my home... unless I am fortunate enough to find one in your 1988 and 1989 collection. Just one more thing... need help buying these photographs.

This is the same property BEFORE remodeling as captured in two photographs taken in 1993:
1. http://vintageaerial.com/photos/maryl...
2. http://vintageaerial.com/photos/maryl...

Just noticed that the pole-building, with A-line roof, that sits between the house and the Chicken House (placed N-W), was later shifted to the West and then to the North, to its current location to the North-West of the house. The small building (Car Port?) visible in the woods on the left seems to be also shifted to the North and then attached to this Pole-building. That open storage might have been used for the farm equipment.
In 2009, after a Tornado hit the main house and the Pole-Building, we remodeled the interior, and it is now a 2-Bedroom Guest Cottage.

Only if there could be a provision to upload the current photo of the property, that would be great.

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