Marcus Dickeys Orchard Home on Bear Wallow Hill, Nashville, Indiana, circa 1917
| Description: |
Postmarked July 12, 1917. The caption reads Heart of the Highland The Orchard Home on the Summit of Bear Wallow Hill, Nashville, Ind. A handwritten note on front reads Rileys old Brown County home on 2nd highest hill in Indiana.John Marcus Dickey, biographer and secretary to poet James Whitcomb Riley, bought this land in 1905 and built this house, known as the house of thirty windows, the following year (The House of the Singing Winds: The Life and Work of T. C. Steele, by Perry, Steele, Steele, and Peat, 2016) |
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| Origin: | 1917, circa |
| Source: |
http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/731823AD-7D08-4ED2-9E63-035392543569 |
| Collection: |
Indiana Album |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Geography: |
1442 Freeman Ridge Road, Nashville, Brown County, Indiana, United States 39.251112,-86.217064 |
| Subjects: |
Houses Hills Nashville (Ind.) Brown County (Ind.) |
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