30 December 2008

Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania

My cousin Ray Tombaugh was on a trip in June, and was able to visit the area near Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania. The Tombaugh family lived in this area since at least 1785, when George Tombaugh received a "land patent" for the Haw Bottom Tract. He was kind enough to send me the pictures below:


Pic 1: The entrance to the cemetery at the former site of the Dunkard Church.  Supposedly some old ladies from Ohio pay to have it taken care of by one of the local farmers.


Pic 2:  The Leattherman Covered Bridge - down the road from the cemetery.


Pic 3: Tombaugh Homestead


Pic 4: Headstone of Solomon and Lydia Letherman Tombaugh, Parents of Leon H. Tombaugh.


Pic 5: Headstone of Rachel Spohn Tombaugh, wife of Mathias Tombaugh. Mathias's stone was overturned.


Pic 6: Headstone of Eli and Rebecca (Wise) Tombaugh


Pic 7:  Headstone of John Tombaugh


Pic 8: Home of John Tombaugh


Pic 9: Lethermen Homestead: Original graves are up at the top of the hill.


Pic 10:  The Century Inn at Scenery Hill, owned by Tombaughs during the Victorian period.

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