In the 1960s, James (Jim) Owen Hubbard (1897-1986) and Henry Chatham Hubbard (1891-1973) were asked by their sister, Lucy Hubbard Critcher (1906-1975), to draw a sketch of the farm layout as they remembered it growing up. Both maps are shown below as well as an artist’s rendering of the farm as it is being preserved and re-developed today.
Henry, Jim, and Lucy were children of Will and Ella Hubbard. Henry, the oldest of his generation, is the only sibling to have really known his grandfather, William Henry. His only memory of his grandfather was his calling to him, “Make haste, Henry,” when he was five or six years old. In her twenties, Lucy, the last of the 30 children to be born in the Benjamin Hubbard house, became interested in family history and spent her life compiling genealogical records from old family Bibles and familiar oral history.
Copies of maps of the farm in its heyday of the 19th century are shown below:
Jim's Map
Artist’s Rendering of Farm with Original Outbuildings
Remnant of Old Burke Road, South of the Hubbard House