Interviewee: Ned Harrington, 2 of 2
Date of birth/age at interview: April 12, 1920/84
Interviewer: Sally Jagoe, Jean Fowler
Interview date: April 9, 2004
Interview location: Harrington residence
Interview length: 46 minutes
Time span discussed: 1813 to 2000
Summary: Ned gives a review of Carversville characters and brief histories of the businesses in the town. He talks about doing the old house research, now available through the Solebury Township Historical Society, and writing a column for the New Hope Gazette.
Time markers:
00:05 – maple trees on his property planted 1859
01:34 – Carversville Inn: history, Jim and Florence Kling owned, also garage across street
03:01 – Harry ran tavern and restaurant, fought with Kling, left with liquor license Carversville dry town for years
04:30 – traveling salesmen main inn clients
05:08 – Ned wrote history of the Carversville Inn; Isaac Pickering built, Thomas Kennedy and Thomas Carver owners
06:51 – Joseph Carver owned mill, tannery: town named for family 1833
07:51 – Depression closed post office, reopened 1939; now in General Store
10:26 – Frank Tomlinson school bus driver with hunting gun in bus in case, maintenance man for Christian Church
12:34 – Walter and Grace Bisson stories
15:33 – donkeys, sheep, and goats
18:21 – Christian Church’s secretary for over 32 years
21:09 – Carversville part of Solebury Township; not incorporated; village same as others
21:59 – Carversville Historic District
22:15 – businesses in Carversville
24:53 – history of the General Store: livery stable, auto garage, general store
26:30 – commercial center in early days: blacksmith, several doctors and dentists, grist mill, barber shop
27:31 – fighting progress in town
29:47 – sells business 1969, worked for new owner
33:35 – Victorian style house renovation, furnishings
35:58 – family, Yankees and Quakers
37:00 – writing histories
37:45 – Solebury Township Historical Society historian; researching old houses
39:00 – Haverford College, education in history
40:14 – meeting unknown cousin by accident
41:11 – Al Roberts, another historian for village, Historic District work
42:07 – more property histories, deed research
43:35 – rewriting and expanding key Bucks County and Solebury histories: Reeder and Richardson
44:13 – New Hope Gazette “Sweepings” column
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