'Turnback Tuesday' features 'Salt Box House' author's words

Turnback Tuesday takes another look at the Salt Box House (photo taken circa 1900.)

This is how author Jane de Forest saw the home that was the inspiration for her book, Salt Box House:

“The old house looks as if it had stood in the path of a tornado. But it only yielded to the pressure of the hand of time weighted with the vagaries of New England’s climate.

"Set on CT's hills with her extremes of heat and cold to try their temper; and the old house, though firm in its foundation and staunch in its up-rearing, after bearing itself bravely for one hundred and thirty years, fell, as an old man falls by the wayside – when the knees give way and the head drops forward – all of a heap!”

*Below is the link to last Tuesday's post about The Salt Box House:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2017319057088263722/3445645468062233676

Thanks goes to the Derby Public Library staff for sharing interesting local history each week.

'Turnback Tuesday' features The Salt Box House in Shelton

Turnback Tuesday visits the Salt Box House.

The house was made known in the pages of a book written by Jane de Forest Shelton called the “Salt Box House” published in 1900. (The library has a copy to borrow.)

The Salt Box House was located in the Ripton/Huntington section of Shelton.

Jane and her sister, Louisa, lived in Derby on Seymour Avenue. The image was sketched by William M. Davis of Cottage Street, Derby. The frame was made of the pickets surrounding the Salt Box House.

The image and frame was donated to the Library by William M. Davis.

Thanks goes to the Derby Public Library staff for sharing interesting local history each week.