The house picture below is captioned as the "Benjamin Troutman House" in the 2005 book "A look at Southampton Township Pennsylvania the way it used to be!" and is included on this website with the permission of Mona Huffman. According to the book, the house was destroyed by fire in 2000.
In February of 2023 Michael McKenzie told me that a local resident told his brother about "a place up at near Comps called Bore Mill run that goes down towards Fairhope and guns were made there and that he saw a rifle when he was little with a lot of silver on it. " I called the local resident, who indicated that the place on Bore Mill Run used to be known as the "Troutman place" but more recently has been known as the "Sensensick place", and the gun he saw had 21 silver decorations. With the local resident's help, I was able to determine the location of the Troutman/Sensensick place. I don't know if Bore Mill Run is named for a boring mill or the Boor family of Southampton Township. My spelling of Bore Mill Run is based on an article in the January 8, 1962 issue of the "Somerset Daily American" newspaper that mentions an Emerick associated with the Bore Mill Run Sportsmen Association. For a description of the bore mills that were used to manufacture rifle barrels, see the gunshop section in chapter 7 of the 1960 book "The Pennsylvania-Kentucky Rifle".
The location of the house on the Troutman/Sensensick place is circled in red on the following excerpt from a 1967 topographic map:
In the following excerpt from a 1949 aerial photo, the house on the Troutman/Sensensick place is circled in red and Comp's Church is circled in yellow.
Go to the Benjamin Troutman page
