What Lies Beneath

While doing some raking recently, we happened upon a piece of slate in the front yard. It was mostly buried by dirt and grass, but a small section remained visible.

We did some quick digging and unearthed, several inches beneath the ground -- a slate walkway.

After many days of excavating (during breaks from working inside the house) we cleared the entire pathway that stretches from the road all the way to the middle section of the house - which we know to have been built in the mid-1800s. A mason (David Cadden) advised us the walkway likely dates back to that time.

We think the slate probably came right the bed of the brook that runs through our property.