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The Stove in the Quiet Acre: What Holt's Crossing Buried in 1876
The Stove in the Quiet Acre: What Holt's Crossing Buried in 1876
A buried parlor stove lay legs-up in a hand-dug pit for more than 130 years before a sinkhole revealed it in 2009 - a deliberate placement that reopened a sealed 1876 household tragedy. What did a missing month of town minutes, a burned house, and a deed for one dollar conspire to hide?
In this episode, we follow the documents and physical clues that connect a cast-iron stove to a May 1876 fire, three private burials, and a man who vanished from all records; what does the stove tell us about why the town recorded “fire, no…
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