8. 316 Market Street

Continuing into Town, the next house was constructed circa 1878. With its center gable in the front and steeply pitched roof, this house is a charming example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture which swept the county in the last part of the 19th century. The wellmaintained building with its standing seam tin roof, retains its two pane windows, stone foundation, wood lap siding, and arched fourpaned window in the center front gable. A full width front porch, which now has a cinderblock foundation and side entrance, invites friends and neighbors to stop and relax. Also on the property are several small frame farm outbuildings with tin roofs. It is interesting to note that all of the houses on the south side of Market Street between Valley House and the junction with High Street were built on the Allen B. Davis Tract, a parcel of land of approximately 15 acres which was undeveloped until the late 1800s.

Another one of the Musgrove houses, this one of Charlie and Daisy. After Charlie's death, Daisy married Marshall Magruder who could be seen most days delivering fresh eggs or poultry to village residents. He was a favorite of the children always with chewing gum and time to talk. They nicknamed him "Boots" because he always wore high top boots

9. 314/312 Market Street

The house next door was built circa 1890 but greatly modernized in i the mid-2Oth century with the enclosure of the front porch and installation of aluminum siding. The decorative cornice brackets under the front cave and the six pane windows remain from the period of the house's construction. The interesting offset gable roof is similar to that of 206 Market Street. Behind this dwelling is 312 Market Street, a one story concrete block, gable roof house built in the 1940s.

The present family has occupied both of these houses for many years, but some of us still remember them as the Ernest Parsly residences.

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