Aaron Anthony Farm - From the Southeast

(Annotated photo and Orientation Map below)

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Symbol Key for the Annotated Photo Below

  • X -- Probable site of "Aunt Bettie's Lot" and Douglass's grandmother's cabin
  • AA -- Aaron Anthony's "Holme Hill" farm
  • K -- "Kentucky", the wooded ravine from which Douglass' family drew spring water
  • MB -- "Muddy Bank", the Tuckahoe River shoreline where Betsey Bailey seine-fished
  • TR -- Tuckahoe River
  • TC -- Tapper's Corner, where Douglass descended from his carriage in 1878 to search for his birthplace
  • NN - The present-day farmhouse (ca. 1870) of the "No-No Acres" grain and horse farm

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    Orientation Map Showing Photo Angle

    (Aircraft positioned at the apex of the angle.)