We hired two city workers again today and tore out all of the rest of the plaster walls (except the originals) in the house. Our dumpster overfloweth. While removing the last of the plaster we found written on the upstairs plaster wall the names of two of the workers who put in the plaster walls in 1940. Their signatures are in pencil on an original wall and dated March 3, 1940. The same sort of pencil markings are to be found all around the house where they wrote dimensions of the drywall support or the plaster it was being cut to cover.

We discovered a small clear glass bottle today while digging outside the side door. It is cast so not early 1800’s but it is definitely old enough to have had a cork top as opposed to a more modern screw-on top. It’s shaped like an old liniment or medicine bottle. We also found a small plow fragment.

We found some old bits of wallpaper still attached but very faded - attached to the upstairs walls. We saved it, but the pattern is almost indistinguishable because the piece is so small, so moldy, and watermarked and it may not be original to the house anyway. All we know is that it predates 1940. Offhand I’d say it looks like turn of the century paper.