. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. er. From this point the road takes a westerlydirection with the Danascara ever in sight, past pleasant farmhouses and farms that present a thrifty appearance. Aboutthirty rods south of the junction of the Tribes Hill road witha road leading from Fonda to Johnstown stands the old Butlerhouse, the former home of Capt. Walter Butler, Senior, andlater of his son, Col. John, of Wyoming notoriety, and grand-son, Lieut. Walter Butler, Junior, who is remembered in con-nection with the Cherry Valley massacre. Located a shortdistance from the main road,
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. er. From this point the road takes a westerlydirection with the Danascara ever in sight, past pleasant farmhouses and farms that present a thrifty appearance. Aboutthirty rods south of the junction of the Tribes Hill road witha road leading from Fonda to Johnstown stands the old Butlerhouse, the former home of Capt. Walter Butler, Senior, andlater of his son, Col. John, of Wyoming notoriety, and grand-son, Lieut. Walter Butler, Junior, who is remembered in con-nection with the Cherry Valley massacre. Located a shortdistance from the main road, it is approached by a driveway^between rows of locust hedges, to a wide, well-kept lawn onthe west side of the house. At first sight the house presentsrather an incongruous appearance by its mingling of the newwith the old. but as we look closer we see that, while the olddoes not add to the attractiveness of the new building, thenew emphasizes the antiquity of the old by contrast. In thecentre of the lawn is an old well with a modern pump, which. CO. X zo 13 o X erf K-I xC LIBRA-^>i 1^ fouNn-i 1- The Famous Butler Mansion 189 has been substituted for the old weather-beaten well-box andsweep from which formerly depended a traditional old moss-covered oaken bucket. On the south edge of the lawn standsa large locust tree whose abbreviated dead branches extend inevery direction. Near this tree a grape-vine grows, whose an-aconda-like trunk has reached and enfolded this tree with itssnaky coils. But it does not, like its reptilian counterpart,convey poisonous death in its embrace, but beautiful life, in itsbright green leaves and tendrils and promises of luscious fruit. To the south of the locust is the fruit garden, filled withthe thrifty fruit trees indigenous to our cold climate, and asuggestion of the south in the numerous fruitful peach-trees,clustered in the bright sunlight. Here and there we see thesyringa, the rose, and the Joseph coat, with their green foliagealmo
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