By Journal Register News Service
Today’s photo features a family homestead — the Harman family homestead, to be exact.
It is located on Salford Station Road in Upper Salford and was built in 1912 by J.S. and C.B. Alderfer, according to Jeanette Harper of Harleysville, who submitted the photo.
As she notes, “It had three stories, 22 rooms, no central heat (note the seven chimneys) and no bathrooms. It was purchased by George W. and Mary Alice Hinkle Harman in 1920.
“The Harmans and their seven children moved from Macksville, W.Va., in November 1920. Their children were getting old enough to get jobs in public works, which were scarce in West Virginia, since most families made their living on farms.”
Mrs. Harper notes that she is “the oldest grandchild of George and Alice Harman, was born in this house in 1921, grew up there and was married to Michael L. Harper in September 1945 and lived there three more years before moving to our newly built home on Oak Drive, Harleysville.”
The property has since been purchased by the New Live Youth and Family Services and is now being used as the administration office, she said.
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