Cornwall Borough resident Bruce Chadbourne offers another of his “Who Knew?” installments of Lebanon Valley history.
The first installment of this “On the Road to Lebanon County” series brought attention to this nearly-200-old-structure, believed to have been a tavern on the old Horseshoe Turnpike that went through in 1803.
Further discovery leads to a later map that doesn’t show the turnpike very near Jackson house. Pulling on one string has seemed to unravel another, the kind of thing that keeps historians asking more questions – “Why don’t the pieces fit together neatly?” Why build that great house in that location? The 1830 date is assumed, based on similar sandstone architectures of that time, but could it be older than that?…