This is the Willis house, down the hardtop maybe 2 miles from my road. It was probably built at the end of the 1800's. Henry Willis, who lived here with his wife and daughter (both named Mary), was a bellhop at the Lake Placid Club. Sunday night he would walk to work in Lake Placid--we figure that's about 13-15 miles at least through the woods, over the mountains. Friday night he would walk home to spend time with his family. I asked Ken when this was and he said "I must have been 6 or so," which means it was around 1920. There were few, if any, cars in the neighborhood then. Still lots of horse traffic.
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