So that's gonna have pictures and give a lot more detail about the legend and the history. But I'll tell you what I can hear. So What we've heard about the high house is that it was built in the s before the Revolutionary War. And again, there's a picture in the article.
If you want to see what it looked like. A s house, it's rare for those to still be around. And unfortunately the house is gone. Uh now some historians, this is a legend but the legend is based in history. So there became a legend. I'll talk. That's a good question. How many graves? And I will answer that. Um let me get through the legend real quick to give you some context for what we're looking at here. And then we'll look closely at the cemetery and the graves themselves.
So probably many of you didn't know. But Kerry has a legend of buried treasure. Little spider right there. I don't know if you can see him, but I almost walked through them. There's a legend of buried treasure in Kerry. Now it's obviously not taken seriously anymore, but there was a time in the s And really the early s when people were looking for that treasure.
Now here's how the legend came to be. First of all, you need to understand that back in the 17 and s, it was pretty common for people to hide their fortune. Um You know, if you had soldiers marching through uh in either the Revolutionary War, Civil War or any of the um you know wars and battles and things happening around that time. And by the way, Kerry was occupied during the Civil War.
Um you wouldn't want them to take your treasure, your riches. So people would in fact hide their valuables. So the family that owned this previously, um the original family that owned the high house when they moved out, the Williams family moved in and when the Williams family moved in and again this house is you know, hundreds of years old one night in the s to be uh the man of the house, he had a dream.
He dreamed that a treasure was buried in the fireplace in the chimney area. And he woke up from the dream and he ran over, ran downstairs. Or the story isn't clear if he ran downstairs or if he didn't live in the house but ran to see the house which he owned. But he ran over there believing this dream might be some sort of potent.
Uh and of course that kind of uh superstitious thinking might have been pretty common back then. So he believed that it might have been true and when he arrived, he found his mother there and his mother had had the same dream overnight um which is very unusual and they took it as a sign.
But when they got two, the fireplace, it had been dug up. They found that someone had been there and someone had been digging around in their fireplace in the exact spot where they had dreamed there might be treasure. So from that uh from what we can tell. And this is a mixture of legend in history and historians have not quite, you know, sorted it out. So we're talking about oral tradition here in oral history that the Williams family became very interested in finding this treasure. And they began to kind of hunt the grounds and look for treasure and they kind of never gave up that treasure hunt and carry.
And in fact their hunt inspired other people to go hunting for treasure in the same area. Now from what I can tell from oral history, from people who remembered the high house. It was abandoned in the early 19 hundreds. This very tall, very large, very imposing structure was abandoned and treasure hunters from what we have heard, treasure hunters picked the house apart. This large abandoned house was ripped apart chunk by chunk as treasure hunters came out there hoping to find this lost treasure of the High House.
So that's the legend of buried treasure and carry. Now according to these oral histories, there was a cemetery Near the high house. Now from what we've heard for several decades more. And some people in Kerry claimed they remember this. So I would think this might be s or 60s. Even some people say that the um the chimney and part of the high house was still standing on High House Road.
Even as as Early or late as the s or 60's, I'm not certain if that's true or not. But of course people then would remember the legend that there might be treasure around that very same chimney. The chimney itself is gone. And historians have tried to piece together where that house stood.
It's kind of a big mystery where did the high house stand. Now, we could take context clues. And again, if you go to the story which is linked to uh in this post here and on wrl dot com slash in history. If you go to that post, you will actually see a description of the land around the house.
And actually that land had many ghost stories around it, which I'll try to get to as well today. But I want to show you the cemetery. So from that description, we had heard that there were family members buried on the property, which was pretty common back in that day. And we began and why I say, me and other historians began trying to find the graveyard and it apparently has been sitting here in this neighborhood the whole time.
And again, private property be very respectful. I would not encourage anybody to come out here. It's private property. Um Again, I have permission to be on this land.
We want to be respectful of the people buried here. So we had heard that um some older graves were here as well as newer graves. So we found this. And sure enough, the names on the headstones match up with what they should be.
We found the name Steadman's find it here. Now a lot of these are really faded, so it's hard to read them and tell exactly who's buried here. But um, historian from the friends of page walker did some research and she found the name steadman and that they were married to the Williams family. So this very well could be that graveyard and it is right off High House Road. So um the location is right and it's within walking distance of where we think the high house once stood.
We do have an idea where we think the high house stood. Now look at these grades, you can tell from the state of them that they haven't been kept up. Um, and I don't, I don't believe that it's the neighborhood responsibility.
Um, from my understanding, um, this land is, you know, this is sadly a thing that happens to family cemeteries from that time period. They, uh, they're on a large piece of family property and um, you know, unfortunately as time goes on and developers buy those areas, they usually try not to dig up the graves, but they build around them and there's no family left to come care for them or if there is, they may not even know it's here either.
So you can obviously see that it's been here awhile. The very treasure from what we can tell would have been near to the house, not to the cemetery. So the buried treasure was always centered around the house. And again, we actually don't think What you would have thought of buried treasure at the time would probably not be much today. Um, we're talking extremely valuable for the s and s.
Think about inflation. It's probably like some old old candlesticks and things like that. How many graves is a great question. So from the history, we actually have heard there are even older graves here and historians have come out here. We believe that this section here is the newer section.
That's why so many of these headstones are intact and then they're falling over, but they're intact. They might be a little broken, but they're intact. We believe that this is probably the older section of the cemetery. Now at some point, someone has come out here to determine how much of this property is graves. Sean Mustache: ii Deluxe cassette.
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