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Gorman. Mr. Gorman took over yard and mill I to look and see if any trouble arose from

among the discharge all quit and most of the unemployed having left seeking employment

else where. I thought myself as drawer of pay for which I gave no service, left for

Irvinton, Warren Co. Pa. where I started handle factory in partnership with S.

Peterson, Plant known as Peterson and Poulsen. I left Irvington for a lucertive fee a

second and my travel down the Alleghany River to Pittsburg then along the Ohio

River down to or near Kentucky on the West Virginia side at Ravenwood, Jackson co. and

Mr. Crooks Geo from Irvington Pa. meet me, He brought a track of timber land and

offer me a chance to saw it at regular sawing rate for which he would pay and I to have

the land as a gift clear when the timber was cut off. I have decided to for this is the

place for handle factory, and on the 3rd day of June 1881, Landed at Round Hill,

Virginia on the 11 day of August 1883 I enter into partnership with Miss Mary Alice

Lunsford and here I am at this writing May 1st 1935.

[Note: There are some obvious errors and problems in the above letter-to-text conversion. It is
what it is … still, WOW so much history! Meanwhile, I am working to obtain a facsimile of
the actual hand-written letter. Stephen]

Finally, the park name proposal included documents referencing the Poulsen
name in the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service
“National Register of Historic Places” for the Round Hill Historic District.

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