Young House

According to a direct descendant, Mrs. Bertha camerer Hodgerson, Brothers of one family married sisters of another in the late 1880’s.  George Camerer married Elizabeth Young. Samuel Camerer Married Margaret Young. 

 

The Young Sisters parents Philip and Mary Fields-Young lived in the house.  Either Mr. Young or Mrs. Young’s parents had built the house. 

 

It was to have been two stories but the stone mason from England died before the home was finished resulting in a wooden second story.  There was also a stone barn and bridge near the property at one time. 

 

According to a local historian, Warren Howdeshell, the hollow was called Bridgewater Hollow for John and Frank Bridgewater who owned property north of the Young House.  The settlement had a general store, post office, blacksmith shop, and a steam powered mill.  Burrs of the old mill still remain in a pasture where it once stood.