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Ogden homestead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5117.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
On the northwest corner of the intersection noted below, this house is still standing (2018). Henry Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (286), claims that part of the house was built in 1681.

Wilkinson homestead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4228-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

Wilkinson homestead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4228-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

Trick dog, standing on hind legs

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4215-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

Trick dog, standing on hind legs

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4215-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

Sharpless stable, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4209.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in his stable in 1885. The case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime.

Sloan’s barn under construction, Baltimore Pike east of Beatty Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4197.jpg
Date: 1899-12-27
This looks like the barn could have been under reconstruction after a fire. 1892 Media map shows the M. W. Sloan estate at this location.

Lindsay ruins

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4110.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Rubble in a field; looks to be the ruins of a barn; another building is visible in the nearby woods.

Horse block

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4097-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Set of stone steps used to help people mount horses.