W.H. Smith House, South Edmunds Road
Object/Artifact
Detail of a Plan of Edmunds, Formerly Township No. 10 in Washington Co. Maine, B.R. Jones Surveyor, 1836, showing the residents along the South Edmunds Road, including William H. Smith. A contemporary photograph of the stie of their house which burned reveals a clearly defined cellar hole grown over with tress, beside a nearby hayfield.
In the woods across the road from the site of the Hallowell District School, which burned March 23, 1950, is the cellar hole of the home of William H. and Deborah (Carter) Smith, who came to Edmunds in 1813. Of their eleven children, three sons built houses on the South Edmunds Road. John H. Smith built the house that burned before 1950 while occupied by Bernard, Sr. and Ruth (Smith) Cox and family. Robert T. erected the dwelling later occupied by Irving and Mildred Kelley. Thomas and Sarah Jane (Holland) Smith's home was later occupied by the Knapton brothers and the Guida family.
