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Ellison House
2-Historic
Shortly before 1952
Br05D.1-S
Ellison House
South Country Rd.
Post-Morrow
RG1 Series 10
From "Early Photographs of the Hamlet of Brookhaven collected by George Perley Morse 1945-1959."
Morse's caption: "Home of Thomas Ellison shortly before it was destroyed by fire in 1952. It stood just north of the Brook House on South Country Road."
On the 1973 Beers map the location is labeled "Mrs. T. J. Ellison."
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"Big Tom" Ellison
2-Historic
Uncertain
Br05D.1-S
Ellison House
South Country Rd.
Post-Morrow
"Big Tom" Ellison, born in 1806, was the son of the first postmaster of Fire Place. He and his mother ran the original Brook Store and tavern, originally on the other side of South Country Rd to the east of Beaver Dam Creek.