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Category: Thompson Family

Glimpses of Life at Centre Furnace Mansion during the 1890’s from Grandma Beaver’s Journals

Centre Furnace Mansion became a quiet retreat after the first generation of Thompson children grew up and moved away from home, and Moses and Mary settled into old age. But in the last decade of the nineteenth century the Mansion was to come alive again as another generation of young people filled the house with […]

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