GDG- Querried Rocks

[Alan D. Brunelle]

The Mills wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> Alan:
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> I have been to the Timber foundation.  I am not sure the road name, but as you go around Devil's Den, you come to a 4 way intersection.  You can go straight to the Wheatfield, left towards Rose Woods (right is one way).  If you turn left, you parallel the Triangular Field.  
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> If you follow this road, you pass the old trolley bed and just as the road turns right and heads up the hill towards the Rose Farm, you would venture left into what used to be the woods, but is now cleared (I think there is still woods for about the first 50 - 75 yards).  
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> Go about 200 - 300 yards into the woods / clearing and you will come to see the remains of a stone fence that the farmers used to use.  I would guess this is the remains of the Timber's stone fence, but I am not sure of this (I just assume this because it is very close to the foundation).  If you get to the little plateu, you can see the remains of the foundation.  It is very hard to tell, because it is literally at ground level and only about 10 yards wide and 20 yards long.  It is very small.  But just as you crest the plateu after you encounter the stone fence line is the foundation.  
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> The last time I saw the clearing in this area, the foundation would have been right at the edge of the tree line.  I did not walk out to see the foundation, but I would assume the clearing did not disturb the foundation in any way.  
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> I hope this helps
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> Thanks
> Andy
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Hi Andy -

You're welcome, and thanks to you for more information on the site. 
Here's what Jorgensen had for directions:

    "To begin your search for the foundation of the Timbers house you
    will need to enter into the woods to the left of Cross Avenue
    [that's the road you were referring to] just before it bends [onto
    Brook Avenue]. With your back to the road, walk into the woods
    heading for the elevated ground ahead of you. The foundation is
    approximately 150 yards in front of the road (across a stone wall)
    and approximately 50 yards below the pasture that is uphill to your
    right. At the top of a rise in the terrain, you can see the remains
    of the stone foundation."

I have a whole bunch of pictures of this area - 158 to be exact - as I 
was trying to chronicle our tour of this area. If I had known the size 
of the walls that would have been helpful (thanks for pointing that 
out). What wasn't/isn't clear is that if I recall correctly, about 50 
yards from the wall bordering the "pasture that is uphill to your right" 
the terrain slopes down pretty fast. That was our biggest problem. We 
did expand our search throughout the area roughly square with Cross 
avenue behind us, the trolley path to the east, the ridge that runs 
almost due west from the current tree cutting area, and then the stone 
wall bordering the pasture aforementioned.

I'm beginning to think we went wrong from the start: we went almost due 
south from Cross Ave, and I'm wondering if we should not have been 
heading more in a southwesterly direction (perpendicular to the bend in 
the road rather than the road itself)?

Interestingly enough, later we were on a tour being led by an LBG (Ellen 
? - I didn't get her last name) and I pinged her on this, and her 
response was "You can't find it unless someone shows it to you." :-)

I have the picture in Jorgensens book, and I have those pictures noted 
above, and maybe now I can figure out if any of them contains the site. 
[Although, as noted above, I'm concerned now that were /never/ even near 
the thing - going 150 yards south (or even 200-300 yards, as you note) 
as opposed to southwest would have put our initial start of the search 
quite aways away from where we should have been. And then we did most of 
our searching to the east & south of that position - figuring the 
pasture at the top of the hill was not the place to look... :-( ]

Alan