East Tour
Before destruction:
Posted on 01/19/2016 1:48:47 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Symbolism doesn't get much more chilling than this. Serious efforts are underway to abrogate the First and Second Amendments, in the name of "campaign finance reform" and "commonsense gun safety" - both euphemisms masking the tyrannical impulses of the left.
At such a time, to demolish the site where the Bill of Rights were first proposed is unnerving, to say the least. But government incompetence, rather than some sinister plot, seems to be at the root of it. Phyllis Zimmerman of The Sentinel of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania reports:
On Jan. 6, workers began demolishing a two-story stone house at 7086 Carlisle Pike in Silver Spring Township that most recently was the site of Stone House Auto Sales.
This just isn't any stone house, however. Built in 1780 as the James Bell Tavern, the structure hosted the Stony Ridge Convention on July 3, 1788, a meeting of Anti-Federalists opposed to ratification of U.S. Constitution, which led to amending the document with the Bill of Rights.
Triple Crown Corporation, the property's owner, legally obtained a permit from the township for the demolition, according to Christine Musser, a member of the township’s Conservation and Preservation Committee.
Musser said she was informed about the stone house’s history by an "outside source." After "doing some digging" about the matter at the Cumberland County Historical Society, she alerted township officials about the matter.
Demolition of the historic structure was "put on hold" and discontinued on Jan. 7, Musser said. To her estimation, about a third of the building was demolished during the initial process.
I guess that leaves 6.6 amendments' worth of the building left. What does it say about us that nobody realized the significance of this site?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It was known well enough to be included on a Cumberland Valley tourism website in a "pub tour" listing. Hard to believe it didn't rate a historic register plaque out front.
‘she was informed about the stone house’s history by an “outside source.”’
Eh, huh? So, there is no obvious documentation about this building?
Sounds like local legend, which could be totally false.
Or a misconstruing of history. Perhaps a few anti-Feds met here to come up with their own ideas.
I have never heard of such a thing as a single “convention” coming up with ALL the BOR amendments as we know them.
Look at this with a grain of salt.
Even if so, I don’t think it’s quite what it’s made out to be. Amendments came gradually, and with alot of Madison’s effort, IIRC.
We are Idiocracy.
So why wasn’t this on the historic preservation register or whatever it is called?
Unfortunately and shamefully, many today don’t think it is worth it to renovate and preserve century old buildings, regardless of whether or not they are of important historical significance.
They may be able to reconstruct it. I hope so.
Oh no. What a crime.
THIS ARTICLE explains better:
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/historic_building_or_building.html
People, this is not a huge travesty.
This is more like a few PA anti-Feds getting together to come up with their ideas of what needed to change; no more than any other state or people like Madison.
This is NOT “the birthplace of the BOR”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3385767/posts?page=31#31
Please see the link there.
This is not what it’s being made out to be. Not at all like destroying Independence Hall or such.
Isn’t it a protected historic site?
Two newborns are lying in beds next to each other.
75 years later the same two end up lying on their death beds next to each other.
One man looks over at the other and says, “So, what’d ya think?”
- old Steven Wright joke (from memory).
needs an shirt-sleeve-rolled obama meme graphic incorporating the text:
MY WORK HERE IS DONE.
:-(
Let me guess, it was the 2nd amendment part.
It is not “BP of the BOR” as is being implied. More of local interest.
On Jan. 6, workers began demolishing a two-story stone house...
Triple Crown Corporation, the property's owner...
Epiphany in the United States
Epiphany, commonly known as Three Kings' Day in the United States, is on January 6. It celebrates the three wise men's visit to baby Jesus and also remembers his baptism, according to the Christian Bible's events. The United States (US) Virgin Islands observe the day as a public holiday.
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/epiphany
Apparently not. I think they are taking steps to make it protected now.
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