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Photos taken and annotated by Ted Fuchs in 1941 and 1942

Entrance

The property at 7 Cherry Hill road was created from a larger piece of property that extended down to Angola Road. To build a summer home on a knoll about a third of the way up the hill, S.M.Tucker and Ted Fuchs utilized a right of way on Cherry Hill Road, with an entranced just below the property of James Hoover (now Stephen and Christine Rhodes) The photograph below were taken in March of 2011 and show the same views as the photos above. The road was shale covered until the 1980's when Ted Fuchs had it paved. The blacktop has been patched but never replaced and shows its age at this point. To quote our "plow guy", Steve Cooper, "They did call this a summer house for nothing." The drive was a better summer road, winters are hard on it, an even with the Cooper's care, the plow pushes stones off the walls and digs up the blacktop when it is not even.

Large Culvert

The first obstacle that needed to be "bridged" in build the drive was a stream that collected runoff from the Hoover property right after the entrance. A large concrete culvert was place in a ditch across the drive, stone walls build on either side and the road constructed between the walls. A smaller concrete culver was place across the drive closer to the entrance (as seen in the last 2011 photo below)