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NINETY NINTH YEAR NO ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER ml SECOND SECTION Post office site in 1841 Landscaping sets off old stone house Driving on the Line In just below you ll come to a beautiful era stone house on a hill You have probably stopped to admire It and per haps to take a picture Velma and Clifford Nichol son are used to people ad It sits well back from the road on seven TOE ROOM is now the Nicholsons modem kitchen For five generations a family named Lamb lived in the stone house Eleven members of the Lamb family were born in this room the house and trees In September the Nicholsons finally found their retirement home Velma stream and Clifford was looking for a stone house to fix to his liking Clifford got his wish but had to dig the pond to satisfy Velma The house Is 118 years ok originally built In 1B5S Clifford Is a history buff and has read in the Joshua history of that on the same property in IM1 stood a lof house owned by McNair This apparently was the location of the Nana post office at the time The remnants of the old stone well can still be seen on the property The actual deed to the property was written on a piece of lamb s skin tor five generations a family named Lamb lived in the atone house What Is now the Nicholson kitchen was then referred to as the room as 11 members of the Lamb family were born there Today the original stone house is divided into eight rooms with a sun room added Downstairs area living room dining room kitchen powder room and gunroom Upstairs are three bedrooms and a bathroom The house originally had three fireplaces one in the living room one in the kit chen now the dining room and one in the master bed room A fourth was added by the Nicholsons when they deepened the dirt floor and finished the basement as a family room The walls In the basement are Inches thick Velma finds the 50 inch wide 15 inch deep window sills the perfect place to dis- weights The original door frames are six Inches wide and the baseboards 12 Inches high A chair rail follows the perimeter of the living room retirement A plate rail around the too of the din ng room walls holds a collection of old plates some belonging to Velma grandmother The walla also hold her collection of butler which look right me in this setting As one admires the property it Is obvious the landscaping has been done by one who loves his work Clifford Is a retired nursery man and the grounds abound in every kind of tree and shrub Imaginable He has spent his life doing this kind of thing for other people and this Is his chance to have things the way he wants them The house and property the care and attention They enjoy the comfort of modern living in a setting rich in history THE DIRT FLOOR in the basement was deepened to provide for a finished family room A fourth fireplace was added to the house The rocking chair Is one Mr Nicholson bought at an auction and with cane bottom and back