Recent posts about the Runaway Scrape prompted Mark Schumann to send me some interesting information about the Nibbs-Fields House that stood on his great-uncle Paul Schumann's property on Clodine Road. Some of you may recall this earlier post on the subject, but Mark has provided more detailed information, including this good photo of the brick home that replaced the earlier wooden structure. (I don't have a date, but this photo must come from the early part of the last century.)
Here's a drawing of the earlier wooden plantation home. It comes from the book, Following General Houston, by B. Wall and A. Williams.
The following text also comes from the book.
This last item is a memoir of Emma Fields McLaughlin whose family lived in the home beginning in 1884. Many thanks to Mark for sending me these items.
Link to Mrs. McLaughlin's recollections written in 1943.
