Setting: Outdoors

Season: Winter

Event: Not Available

Side Of House: Front

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Description: Charles and Sarah (Thompson) Anderson, natives of Ireland, immigrated to America in 1825. The family located in Baltimore for a few years before moving to Pittsburgh where Charles engaged in the grocery business. In 1837 Charles moved his family to Talley Cavey to settle on land he had purchased from James Cunningham. The parcel, a part of land known as “Green Grove Tract,” was located along what is now known as Rt. 8. Charles Anderson was the first to settle and work the land. He operated a brickyard on the property and built his house in 1837. He also supplied the bricks and helped build the Reformed Presbyterian Church on Pioneer Road which serves as the present home of the Depreciation Lands Museum. The Anderson house burned during the Civil War and was rebuilt in 1867. Charles and Sarah Anderson had two sons, Samuel and Hugh who served in the Civil War. Charles Anderson, an active member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, was buried in the Depreciation Lands Cemetery w