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Bridge at Leedom's Mill

100 block of Thornton Road 

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“A few small bands of gypsies traveled through our section of the country every summer during my boyhood days. They disappeared completely sometime during the first decade of this century. Each band usually consisted of five or six men and women with several children of all ages riding in two or three covered wagons drawn by old, decrepit horses. They stopped frequently on their travels, camping beside their wagons in meadows or in sparse woodland plots always on the banks of a brook” (Hannum, p. 47).

The Thornton Road bridge over Deborah’s Run is very much still intact. The stone bridge from the 1924 tour has seemingly been replace with a modern one. The Pyle-Leedom House sits on a low hill above the bridge, watching the traffic pass along this rural stretch of Thornton Road.

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