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Here we begin a series of historic photographs from the sitting room of Mrs. Martha B. Warren, step-granddaughter of Samuel Lyle Hazard and heir to the Hazard family legacy (see Who Was Martha B. Warren?) Samuel Lyle Hazard came to own some 600 acres between Glen Lake and Lake Bomoseen, beginning in 1875. In 1958 Martha B. Warren, who ended up owning all the Hazard property in the West Castleton area, willed all her lands and buildings to the State of Vermont, on the condition that the lands be turned into a state park, and her house and all of her effects remained accessible to the public. Her house is variously called the Hazard House, the Warren House, the Park Manager's House, the Ranger's House, etc. Here we call it the Hazard House. Today all of Mrs. Warren's artifacts remain much as she left them: her books, Victrola machine and records, furniture, wall paintings -- and two boxes of photographs and letters. (Photo: Martha B. Warren's sitting room in the Hazard House)

Some of the letters date back to the 1810s, and many from the 1840s and 1850s. On this trip I neither inventoried nor photographed these letters. They really do merit preservation. Right now they lie flat in two oversize manila folders at the bottom of a cardboard box, beneath piles of photo albums, envelopes of negatives, and other artifacts. There are probably 150 or 200 very old letters, maybe more. And at least 1,000 photo negatives, most from the 1920s and 1930s it seems. The two boxes of photos, negatives, and letters are housed in a closet or crawlspace of the Hazard House. (Right: the Hazard House in 1910; photo 389a)

The photos presented here therefore represent but a small fraction of the material in the Martha B. Warren collection. I was most interested in material relating to West Castleton and Lake Bomoseen from the 1880s to the 1910s. (Right: detail of photo of Cedar Mountain Quarry, about 1.2 miles east of the Hazard House along Cedar Mountain Road, ca. 1912 [photo 283], from the Joe Doran Collection)

Our grandfather John Delehanty (b. 1886) very probably knew Martha Ballard as the girl whose daddy owned the Hazard Store. The Delehanty Boarding House, where he was born & raised, lay less than a mile east of Martha's house and the Hazard Store along Cedar Mountain Road. As a boy he must have passed her house thousands of times, on his way to Fair Haven, Hydeville, and points beyond (he had to, unless he traveled by boat, or over the ice). It is very likely that he was acquainted with at least some of the people featured in these photographs -- even though he and they occupied vastly different social spaces.

Martha B. Warren was a privileged woman. Her world was the world of America's upper middle-class. John Delehanty's family was one step above quarry workers. His family owned no real property, occupying a social position a small notch above the bottom rungs of the working class, and miles beneath the upper middle class. John Delehanty left the area for good around 1903-04, by our reckoning. If the people in these photographs ever saw John Delehanty -- and it is very likely that many did lay eyes on him at one point or another -- they probably looked on him as the poor boy from the quarrymen's boarding house down the road. (Left: Martha Ballard, age 9 [1900], a year after John Delehanty's father died, and a year before his mother died; photo 400)

Thanks to Jeremy and the rest of the Bomoseen Park staff for providing me with unrestricted access to this material. Click on thumbnails for full view.

	377. Slate house, West Castleton, n.d., ca. 1900.
	377a. Cropped version of the above.
	378. Slate house, West Castleton, n.d., ca. 1900.
	378a. Cropped version of the above.
	379. Unidentified man standing in front of pile of waste slate, West Castleton, ca. 1900 [looks to be "Jim Adams" as identified in photo no. 394d, p. 10]
	379a. Cropped version of the above.
	380. Unidentified woman standing before slate house and fence, West Castleton, ca. 1890.
	380a. Cropped version of the above.
	381. Martha B. Warren photo album page No. 1. CONVENTIONS FOLLOWED IN THESE PAGES: Photos of entire album pages presented first, followed by cropped individual photos identified in italics as "a, b, c . . ." etc, presented in sequence from left to right, and from top to bottom. Annotations in quotes are transcribed from album pages and photograph margins.
	381a. "Dan Edgerton, 1921."
	381b. "West Castleton, Vt. Harriet Edgerton's Home, 1921"
	381c. "Leila Wells, S. J. Hazard, 1921"
	381d. "Dan Edgerton, Leila Wells, 1921"
	381e. "Leila Wells, S. J. Hazard, 1921"
	381f. "Leila Wells, Piran Edgerton, 1921"
	382. Martha B. Warren photo album page no. 2.
	382a. "Roddy, Jim, Hortin 1911" ["Roddy" is Rodman O. Hazard, the brother (?) of Martha B. Warren, born in 1904 and the sole male heir to the Hazard legacy. There are many photos of Rodman in these albums. Athletic and vigorous, he was killed in 1925, at age 21, in a pole-climbing accident; See the Fair Haven Era, 19 Nov 1925]
	382b. "Long Lake NY 1915"
	382c. "Thirteenth Lake NY 1915. Elizabeth Hellenbeck, Art Pratt, Bess Havens"
	382d. "13th Lake. Elizabeth Hallenbeck, Martha Pratt, Bess Havens, Mort Havens, 1915"
	382e. [no annotation]
	382f. "Oscar Kinney, [---] Harris, 1915"
	383. Martha B. Warren photo album page no. 3.
	383a. "[Sandy?] Pratt, Edith P. Bob & Eva 1914."
	383b. "Art. 1914."
	383c. "[Trainer?] 1914"
	383d. "Eva Pratt & Martha. 1914." [Martha Ballard]
	383e. "Pratt's dog."
	383f. "Martha 1914." [Martha Ballard]
	384. Martha B. Warren photo album page no. 4.
	384a. "Lester Hazard, Roddy, Mother" [There were three generations of Hazard men: The grandfather Samuel L. Hazard bought out the West Castleton Railroad & Slate Co. in 1875 and ran West Castleton as a company town for the next quarter-century; Samuel's son Samuel Lyle Hazard (b. 1855) ran a general store in West Castleton from Nov. 1879 until his retirement in Oct. 1926; and Samuel Lyle's grandson Rodman O. Hazard (b. 1904), who died prematurely in 1925. Photo is undated, but Roddy looks to be about ten, so this is probably around 1914].
	384b. "Roddy & Father, 1917" [Lester S. Hazard and his son Rodman O. Hazard.]
	384c. "S. L. Hazard 1917" (Samuel L. Hazard.)
	384d. "Roddy" (Rodman O. Hazard, no date, ca. 1914)
	384e. "Roddy H., Piran & Dan Edgerton"
	384f. "Dan Edgerton"
	385. Martha B. Warren photo album page no. 5.
	385a. "Willet [?] Apt., Albany 1910" [all these are in Albany NY]
	385b. "1910 Art Pratt"
	385c. "Martha 1910"
	385d. "Mother 1910"
	385e. "Martha 1910" [Martha Ballard]
	385f. "Art 1910" [Arthur Pratt]
	386. Martha B. Warren photo album page no. 6.
	386a. "Art 1910"
	386b. "Vera Gendar (?) 1910"
	386c. "Vera Williams 1909"
	386d. "Roddy 1910"
	386e. "Mother and Lante (?)" ["Mother" must be Annie Ballard]
	386f. "Roddy"