"Franconia Remembers, Volume IV"
Editor: Jacqueline Walker
Publisher: Franconia Museum, Inc. (2008)
The Franconia Museum unveiled a literary treasure for history enthusiasts with the release of "Franconia Remembers: Volume IV" in September of 2008. This eagerly anticipated fourth volume in an ongoing series offered a captivating blend of pictures and lore spanning 211 pages that were meticulously curated by editor Jacqueline Walker, providing readers with a deeper insight into the rich heritage of the Franconia area.
The volume features a story about the history of Rose Hill. The cover features a colorized version of the original Rose Hill Manor house that stood at the end of what is now May Boulevard. The book also includes reminiscences from other long-time Franconia residents, including Jac Walker, who has lived on Valley View Drive for more than 80 years. Representing Rose Hill will be Connie Beatty, who has lived in Rose Hill since 1955. Kathryn Ogden also wrote her family's story for Volume IV of Franconia Remembers. In it, she recalled that the Ogdens always raised one turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone ate except Herbie, who refused to eat the family pet! He also raised pigs and made enough money from the pigs and an Evening Star paper route to buy his first car.
Here is a listing of each of the stories included in this volume:
- "Rose Hill House" by Don Hakenson and Jim Cox
- "Our Families -- Walker and Padgett and Cooke and Apperson" by Jacqueline "Jac" Walker
- "Rose Hill -- Birth of a Community" by Carl Sell
- "The Ogden Family of Franconia" by Kathryn Ogden Talbert
- "My Memories of Franconia" by Sharon Taber Breeding
- "Confirming Mosby's Raid at the Broders on July 30, 1864" by Don Hakenson
- "John Broders' Broken Tombstone Comes Home After 25 Years" by Don Hakenson
- "Laura Ruth Riston Meek -- an Oak Grove Story" by Mary Evelyn Smith
- "A Granddaughter Remembers 1940s - 1950s" by Helen Kearns
- "Arthur L. Nalls, Jr." by Jac Walker
- "Accotink" by Marjorie E. Baggett Tharpe
- "Recollections -- A Step Back in Time" by Marjorie E. Baggett Tharpe
- "The Stewardson Family of Franconia" by Joyce Stewardson Young
- "My Franconia as Remembered" by Barbara Stewardson Wassom
THIS ITEM CAN ALSO BE PURCHASED AT A DISCOUNT BY VISITING THE FRANCONIA MUSEUM IN-PERSON AT 6121 FRANCONIA ROAD.