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The Old Country Store

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The Old Country Store

Bridges Ohio Highland County, was just a little crossroads,but back in the 50/60's it was a real hub for our little community. We moved to bridges during the summer of 1951. We left a very nice 80 + acre farm down by Dodsonville /Pricetown area where Dad had built us a new home and a new barn. When we saw the farm there in Bridges we were astonished at all it had to offer.
There were two big barns one a bank barn,with spring fed running water year around, hog wallow, farm tank, water to both barns and even a 3 foot high 12 foot wide cattle tank, that we later converted into a gold fish tank where we kept gold fish that were 12 inches long, it sure was pretty.
The old house on the farm was 110 years old when we bought it and was listed on the historical landmarks in Washington DC, and when we tore it down some time later people came from there to take pictures and tried to get us to stop. The entire outside of the house was sided with walnut from the farm, with red cedar ceilings inside and lots of other woods with two big fireplaces. But is was cold and windy with breezes flowing in every direction, but very comfortable in the summer. We helped Dad build us a new concrete block 4 bedroom home that's still there today.
We met all our neighbors quickly, because we had the big swimming hole at the end of our farm where two creeks met. The mouth of the creek made a perfect place to go swimming and all the neighbor kids came down when ever they wanted to swim.
Elmer's General Store was just on up the road about 500 yards with all kinds of good things if you had the money.
I used to like to go down to Elmer's and hang around in the winter evenings and listen to the old men of the area talk about all kinds of things that were important at the time. We would sit around and put peanuts in our pop, thats what we called out drink back then it was either a soda pop or just pop.The old men would chew tobacco and spit in what ever was handy or have their own little can available.