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From the Bouton collection of Shandelee pictures, Volume 2, page 7, photo 26-c, the gentleman in the wagon is Christopher "Kip" Whipple. Noted for his story telling, Kip hailed from the Willowemoc area. In fact, the photograph is taken directly in front of the old Whipple homestead at Brown Settlement, not Shandelee, along the Brown Settlement Road. The road as it climbs the hill in the background, intersects with Terwilliger Road at the top of the hill. The building in the distance behind Kip, the Simpson homestead, is still there and though the Whipple homestead is long gone, the pond is also still there, though enlarged. Too bad that the image is not sharper for the Brown Settlement Church was located at this road intersection, behind those trees next to the Simpson house. It would be interesting to see if the steeple would show. Kip was then, at the probable date of this photograph, the mail carrier from Livingston Manor to the upper Willowemoc Valley. The image shows Kip with a special delivery for the lady, hopefully unopened from the long arduous journey Kip would have made up the Willowemoc Valley
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LM2-27d.jpg	LM2-28a.jpg	LM2-28b.jpg The Rose house, that is shown in LM 1 - 005 is hidden by the vegetation, much of which is painted onto the card, but the railing of the porch does show. The house on the left is almost exactly like the Rose building, probably because it was built by the same carpenter, Charles Portz, who married Edward Rose's sister and lived there for a period of time. The low buildings in the background on the right would be the location of the original Shandelee post office, which existed for a couple of years before 1910, but was owned by Frank Rose, Edward's son, at the probable time of this post card's image.
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