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"The New Home"
William Hannum – Bertha Fairies House
438 Smithbridge Road


“The apple orchard across the road from the barn, between the Walters road and the truck patch, consisted of thirty or forty trees bearing a variety of apples ranging from the early yellow Harvest apples ripening early in June to the good-keeping winter varieties ripening late in the fall such as the Baldwin, York Imperial, Pippin, Grime’s Golden, Winesap. Rhode Island Greenies, and Russett, with several other varieties in between as Porter, gravenstein, smokehouse, Followaller, Cider, and Ben Davis” (Hannum, p. 19).
This house was built in 1924 on land formerly used as a Palmer-Hannum family cemetery. The house's foundation includes a headstone from a grave belonging to Sarah Broom. Before the home was built, this tract of land was also used as an apple orchard for the Hannum family. According to the 1913 map of Concord Township, Bertha Fairies owned the property, which included a frame building where the house now stands. It was then sold to T. William Marks, who owned the house until the 1970s.
The house still stands today at the intersection of Concord and Smithbridge roads, shielded from traffic by a thick row of trees and rhododendrons.

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