I don't know where this blog will take us exactly, but I can guess that a lot of it will be about my family homestead, where I was born and raised. So let me get some preliminaries out of the way for those of you who haven't been exposed to this before. We were fortunate to be able to buy the house and remaining 120 acres several years ago and enjoy a lot of time there in the country. Our "farm" is located in the Southwest corner of Woodhull, NY, and actually borders on Pennsylvania. My father always referred to it has Biscuit Hollow. We thought that was a made up name, a little too quaint for us sophisticated young people, even a little corny.
Several years ago I was looking at some USGS topography maps of the area. Usually I look at the NY quadrangles but this time I looked at the Knoxville, PA, quadrangle and voila! There was "Biscuit Hollow". So now that it's official, that's the name I most often use to describe our little piece of heaven.
You can click on the map above and see it full size. Or you can click on the link below and see the original.
TopoZone - USGS Knoxville (PA,NY) Topo Map: "UTM 18 296511E 4652478N (NAD27)
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