title: Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley: Stories from the Albany Post Road
author: Carney Rhinevault
description: Carney Rhinevault is Hyde Park town historian and is the author of The Home Front at Roosevelts Hometown: Small Town America During World War II. He has researched thousands of deeds, wills, maps and other documents during a long career in surveying and cartography.
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  # A BRAVE LITTLE QUAKERESS. A TRADITION OF THE
  
  
  REVOLUTION
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### E. P. Roe
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Not very far from the Highlands of the Hudson, but at a
  
  
  considerable distance from the river, there stood, one hundred years
  
  
  ago, a farmhouse that evidently had been built as much for strength
  
  
  and defence as for comfort. The dwelling was one story and a half in
  
  
  height, and was constructed of hewn logs, fitted closely together, and
  
  
  made impervious to the weather by old- fashioned mortar, which seems
  
  
  to defy the action of time. Two entrances facing each other led to the
  
  
  main or living room, and they were so large that a horse could pass
  
  
  through them, dragging in immense back-logs. These, having been
  
  
  detached from a chain when in the proper position, were rolled into
  
  
  the huge fireplace that yawned like a sooty cavern at the farther end
  
  
  of the apartment. A modern house