Valley Farm- J. Palmer Home

My Aunt and Uncle lived in the stone house in the 1980’s when it was owned by Don and Marg Annan. Spent many summer weekends there playing by the creek and being told stories of Percy the ghost, the English patriarch who built the house for his family. There was a tire swing at the end of the long driveway. I remember thinking the sunporch on the side of the house was haunted and I wouldn’t go in there. We had pig roasts in the side yard. I have walked the driveway many times in the years since my family moved on, and still hear laughter in the trees.

Oh I forgot to mention.....I fell in love while i was living in this house. You know who you are!!!

I lived in this house between 1990 and 1992. At that time I worked for one of the owners who was part of small group of developers that owned the property. It was called "the Stone House", and i was kinda just looking after it for them. I was in my mid 20's probably did'nt really appreciate where and what i was living in...then again it was freezing cold, the furnace gobbled up oil like a nitrous dyson.....but the place did have a certain romantic appeal to it. The Great Room, where practically lived my entire time, had a massive fireflace....you could almost walk into it. I was told, (albeit unconfirmed that the house was originally built by a British Lord whose daughter had an acute lung condition that made it impossible for her to live in London England where coal burning for heating and industry made it impossible for her to live....so apparently he built her this house and she lived out her life here. That was totally anecdotal but one day while living there a man showed up doing research on an individual named "Laird",, I beleive the first name was Percy, and had tied that name to this property. It is understood the name "Laird" evolved from the title Lord of the British Aristocracy. Also, it was pretty spooky place at night.... Andrew

I lived in this house between 1990 and 1992. At that time I worked for one of the owners who was part of small group of developers that owned the property. It was called "the Stone House", and i was kinda just looking after it for them. I was in my mid 20's probably did'nt really appreciate where and what i was living in...then again it was freezing cold, the furnace gobbled up oil like a nitrous dyson.....but the place did have a certain romantic appeal to it. The Great Room, where practically lived my entire time, had a massive fireflace....you could almost walk into it. I was told, (albeit unconfirmed that the house was originally built by a British Lord whose daughter had an acute lung condition that made it impossible for her to live in London England where coal burning for heating and industry made it impossible for her to live....so apparently he built her this house and she lived out her life here. That was totally anecdotal but one day while living there a man showed up doing research on an individual named "Laird",, I beleive the first name was Percy, and had tied that name to this property. It is understood the name "Laird" evolved from the title Lord of the British Aristocracy. Also, it was pretty spooky place at night.... Andrew

oh my! thanks for identifying this one! my friends and i have been walking down to the "valley farm house" as long as i can remember, great for spontaneous photo shoots in the fall... despite the grafitti that now covers the building, its an awesome first time exploration mission! thank you for the history & background.

Yes the J Palmer property is very historic to me as well. Great stuff Trish..The north section of his lot became the Gottleib farm in the mid 1900s and was used for the filming of Hawkeye and Last of the MOhicans in the 1950s. I have another treasure for you just north of here where Ganatsekiagon Creek and Conc 3 touch on the old IP Don property..see the house marked on the 1877 map? It a log cabi