Each year the Towamensing Township Historical Commission presents an award to a township resident who has done the most to preserve township history. This year’s award went to Albertine Anthony of East Stage Coach Road.
Ms. Anthony, who owns a 90-acre preserved farm, recently had repairs made to her bank barn, which I believe to be the oldest existing barn in the township. The barn is unique in our township; most bank barns are two-story, but Ms. Anthony’s barn is three stories tall; you back the wagon into the third story. According to my father, who knew much more about these things than I do, there were no other three-story barns in the entire township.
Ms. Anthony also owns a historic cool cellar, and her house is over 100 years old. She still maintains a garden that is weed-free and puts mine to shame. She is an amazing woman and a township treasure.
She is also one of the main opponents of the proposed PennEast pipeline. She said that if she wanted to ruin her farm, she would have done it herself. Now a pipeline company proposes to cut a trench across her fields above her spring. It’s not right.
Albertine is a great lady. She was a Dental patient of mine until I retired.
ReplyDeleteI canrember when she would sell eggs door to door.
She is an amazing woman. She also has a wonderful sense of humor. The Times News did a nice article on her today, and it had a good picture of her barn.
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