I think my house is a very historic place in Franklin Township. I live on Hogback Road. My family has owned it since 1973. Before they owned it was a 110-acre farm. Now it is 17 acres and we grow corn on 9 acres.

The people who lived on the farm before us, the McNamara's, told the information that we have about the house to my grandmother. The foundation is stone and about 200 years old. In 1933 the house burned to the ground. Mr. McNamara was the head of the New Jersey Fish and Game Commission and when he rebuilt it. He built the entire inside of the house with "thick, different width pine." Inside the walls we found newspapers from 1933 and notes from Mr. McNamara's office.

There is a stone carriage house also which we heard dated back to 1710. The original stones and chestnut beams are still there. The beams are held together with wooden pegs.

The driveway used to be the "fire lane" connecting Hogback Road to Quakertown. Before all the building started you could follow the old road all the way through. It had big trees on each side.

The reason I think it is such a historic place is because it looks just like it did before the fire from the outside and it never changes. I like that.