This is the beginning of a second set of photographs, taken during my second research trip to Rutland County, August 11-18, 2007.  This second batch of photos, identified here as "WCJ2" (West Castleton Journal 2) appears on Photo Pages 19-42, and includes nearly 1,200 images.  To make it easier to keep track of things, I'm continuing the numbering sequence from my first trip (Photo Pages 1-18).  The final photograph from the first batch of photos is No. 511 (the last image on Photo Page 18).  The first photo to appear here (in WCJ2) is thus No. 512.  As before, there's about 50 photos per page.

     This second collection of photos includes more than 200 images of old letters in the Martha B. Warren collection, some dating back to the 1810s (beginning with Photo No. 525 on this page).  Here I make no effort to transcribe or interpret these letters.  I publish them here because they're very old, look very interesting, and because they should be made publicly available (in keeping with Martha B. Warren's wishes), and in case anyone out there (like a budding M.A. or doctoral student, for instance) wants to make use of them.  These letters are still lying in a couple of file folders at the bottom of a cardboard box in the Martha B. Warren Room in the Ranger's House at Lake Bomoseen State Park.

     As the thumbnails and annotations indicate, most of these WCJ2 photos are of documents housed in the Castleton Town Offices, mainly the 19th century grand lists and tax assessment books that I organized in the basement vault.  As before, the photos are presented here in the sequence in which they were taken.  The point of these photos pages is not to organize things.  It is to impose an order upon a mass of material by giving each photograph with a unique number and locale -- to create a big filing cabinet where each photo has its place.  Organization and interpretation of this material is the job of other pages.

     Click on thumbnails to view full image.  Here goes:

	512.  Granville NY!
	513.  Yes, it's Granville NY!
	514.  Getting closer!
	515.  The Fair Haven Municipal Building!
	516.  Again!
	517.  The Martha B. Warren House, a.k.a. the Park Ranger's House at Lake Bomoseen State Park, where the Martha B. Warren photos & Hazard Letters reside.
	518.  Another shot.
	519.  Martha B. Warren House mailbox.  Waiting for Jeremy.
	520.  The plaque on the house.
	521.  Another shot.
	522.  Initials "R.O.H." on the slate exterior -- supposedly Rodman O. Hazard, but I bet it was carved by someone long after R.O.H. had met his unfortunate demise.
	523.  The front door.
	524.  Another shot.
The Hazard and Ballard Papers in the Martha B. Warren Collection, Bomoseen State Park
	525.  Hazard Letters No. 1 (all these Hazard-Ballard photos taken Sun Aug 12).
	526.  Hazard Letters No. 2.
	527.  Hazard Letters No. 3.
	528.  Hazard Letters No. 4.
	529.  Hazard Letters No. 5.
	530.  Hazard Letters No. 6.
	531.  Hazard Letters No. 7.
	532.  Hazard Letters No. 8.
	533.  Hazard Letters No. 9.
	534.  Hazard Letters No. 10.
	535.  Hazard Letters No. 11.
	536.  Hazard Letters No. 12.
	537.  Hazard Letters No. 13.
	538.  Hazard Letters No. 14.
	539.  Hazard Letters No. 15.
	540.  Hazard Letters No. 16.
	541.  Hazard Letters No. 17.
	542.  Hazard Letters No. 18.
	543.  Hazard Letters No. 19.
	544.  Hazard Letters No. 20.
	545.  Hazard Letters No. 21.
	546.  Hazard Letters No. 22.
	547.  Hazard Letters No. 23.
	548.  Hazard Letters No. 24.
	549.  Hazard Letters No. 25.
	550.  Hazard Letters No. 26.

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