Article Summaries
 FIREBROOK ESTATE'S TWO HISTORIC HOMES
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I. Firebrook Beginning 1763 
 
II. The Cartmell Period at Firebrook
 
III. Sailing Ships, Quakers, and Pioneers - The Original Cartmell Emigrant of 1685 to Margaret Cartmell Bryan
 
IV. Mourning Customs of the 19th Century at Bryan Place
 
V. Views of Families in our Historic Houses through the Federal Census Records 1810-1880
 
VI. Bryan Place becomes Deanside
 
VII. A History of the Lexington Cemetery by Burton Milward published 1989
 
VIII. Hemp
 
IX. Interesting South Elkhorn Neighbors 1810
 
X. Elijah and Mary Cartmell's Children
 
 
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