This photo shows the Alonzo Lepley Farm, Southampton Township, Somerset County, PA. The photo shows the south side of the buildings. The house was torn down in the 1970's. This is the farm where the Lepley gunsmithing parts were found.
This photo was reproduced from volume one of the 2005 book "A Look At Southampton Township Pennsylvania The Way It Used To Be!", with permission of the author. That book states "Adam Lepley III owned this farm and gave one third part to his son Sam Lepley, who then gave it to Alonzo and Edna Lepley.". The farm is currently (2008) owned by a grandson of Allen Lester Korns.
In 2007 my first cousin, who now owns this farm, said that Lester Korns once told him that the lumber for the present barn on Alonzo's farm was hauled down from Warren's Mill by wagon, and also told him that Warren's Mill was a reciprocating blade sawmill, rather than a circular saw mill. The mill gave its name to what is presently known as Warren's Mill Road. If lumber had to be hauled from that far away, it tells us that the water-powered saw mill at the foot of the hill below this farm was probably no longer in use when the barn was built.
