'SOUTH"'FAMILY: Little frame cottage, ca , 1800, considered the earliest SF
building, although referred to as the original home could not have been a
residence for the approximately 16 young Believers who constituted the
Gathering Family in 1800, This cottage was: later known as the "Sauce and
Jelly House," and just before it was razed after 1939 it was used for
scalding pigs .

Dwelling or Bell House, built 1800; presently owned; enclosed porch, one-
story extension and bell (raised in 1848) not original.
For many years it has been common belief that this residence was
built in 1822, but newly discovered material from the SF records substantiated
by the wirtings of Thomas Brown' strenthen the theory that this is the dwelling
built in 1800 by the Church-for the Young Believers.
The measured architectural drawing shows the dewelling house; the cross
section shows the 6 doors used as a folding partition in the original meeting
roomonthefirstfloor.
There was a Second House built in 1822; later used as Trustees1 office
and canning building; presently privately owned and remodeled.
4a Brethren's Office or SF Second House.
When the CF school closed about 1913, a building at SF served the dual func-
tion of SF Carpenter Shop and School (District #14) until it closed in 1926.
The children of the SF remember that "when we; did the wash they would open
the gate to the first pond and let the water go down to the second pond to
run the water wheels in the basement of the washhouse.
The hired men sawed wood for the washhouse, where the steam machine did 'the
*wash. They used a gourd dipper to get soft soap out of the bid cauldron.
Caroline Tate and Lucy Bowers were natural cousins.




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