We think William Johnson would be proud

The library on Franklin Street near the YMCA has what are kind of like yellow pages of the past. There are shelves of these books and the older ones are on microfilm. Each book has a couple of years worth of information in it. You look up your address and then you are able to see who lived at the property and what they did as a profession. The first date I was able to find our property was 1874. William Johnson, a blacksmith who later became an ironworker lived at the property until 1902. Interesting to us becuase the iron work on our porch is quite unique. We haven't been able to find another porch that looks similar. So with everything we're doing to our house, we often think of William Johnson and hope he'd like what we're doing.