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The Vernon Project: Where It All Began

A vanished address, a stubborn memory. What led me to investigate this old house, its past and the entire street that would come to be known as:

Hunting Clues in the Mount Pleasant Papers

There is a lot of history in a newspaper if you know where to look. The Mount Pleasant Paper has been around for a very long time.

Rebuilding the Enumerator’s Route

Towns and cities have been mapped far longer than you might think. Its helpful for looking at how a town evolves or when streets disappear..

Who lived where?

The next step is to dive into ancestry records to uncover lives and homes on Vernon Street.