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St. Marys Site 20 (31 Or500 * *) This is the site of the farmstead of Ernest Lockhart (deceased 1954) , Mary Jane Lockhart Gosling ' s uncle . His site is marked on the 1918 soil map . Mr. Lockhart owned about 213 acres on both sides of St . Mary' s Road . His home was a log cabin bracketed by two holly trees in the back and two dogwoods in the front, just off the porch. The cabin had two chimneys . It also had two rooms downstairs with a middle hall and it had an upstairs . The cabin was moved to a nearby location to the northwest, just west of the present garage at Mrs . Gosling ' s home . This enabled she and her mother to build their small frame house (extant) just north of the original location of the cabin in the early 1960s . At that time Mrs . Gosling added a room and kitchen ell to the cabin. The cabin burned down in a Christmas Eve fire at least ten years ago . The remains were pushed southward and buried in the southwest quadrant of her front yard, just east of the fenced pasture (Mary Jane Lockhart Gosling, personal communication 1999) . The existing outbuildings at the farmstead were once associated with her uncle ' s farm The barns and sheds behind her home once housed Ernest Lockhart ' s mules and cows . He bred them for sale . He also had , a large barn across the road on modern-day Lockhill Farm. This bam has been turned into a home, now rented to the horse farm' s caretaker . Mary Jane states that she has occasionally found a few prehistoric projectile points in this area. She could, not find any of those artifacts at this time (Mary Jane Lockhart Gosling , personal communication 1999) . ' St. Mary 's Site 21 (31Or501 * *) This site is located just east of the Ernest Lockhart farmstead . It is marked as two structures on the 1918 soil map . It is presently the home of Mrs . Jessie Norman, stepdaughter to Aunt Sue Wilson. The present site is covered in tall grasses . An old barn sits on a knoll facing St. Mary ' s Road. A small, blue frame house built by Mrs . Norman and her husband is located to the east of the outbuildings on the same knoll . A few large yard trees shade the home site . The frame house was built soon after the original two - story frame home burned to the ground. The new structure was built to the east of the original building and should not have impacted the archaeological potential of the historic site . The original structure was once a tavern. It had a large porch with a hatched doorway, allowing the homeowners to serve travelers through the top half of the door. The tavern structure was believed to be well over 200 years old (Jessie Norman, personal communication 1999) . This tavern site may prove to be the elusive site of Michael Synnott ' s eighteenth-century tavern (Mary Jane Lockhart Gosling , personal communication 1999 ) . St. Mary 's Site 22 (31 Or502 * *) The David Lockhart cabin site is the farmstead of Mary Jane Lockhart ' s father. The log cabin is long gone, but once stood near Finches Branch on a knoll near Pleasant Green Road. A structure is found at this approximate location on the 1918 soil map . At present the site consists of a grassed area in a stand of fruit trees, found just north of a modern barn. An old driveway leads southeastward into the mixed woodlands . At the edge of the woodlands a large log tobacco packing house is still standing. It is square- hewn and V -notched and sits on a stone foundation. This was a building where the cured 39