Historic Homes of Camden, No. 4

           The year is 1854. Col. James Brooks built the original House on Harrison Street. It was occupied by various members of his extended family and ultimately purchased by George Louis Ritchie in 1882.

            George Louis Ritchie gave this house to "Sister Ella." She and her family, including Professor Charles Thomas Gordon and Alice Gordon, Susie Gordon, George Gordon, Janie Gordon, and Frances Gordon moved into Camden from the Gordon Plantation (I use the word historically and loosely) between 1888 and 1890. My grandmother Mildred Gordon was the only child born in Camden, in the colonial home on Harrison Street.

                        The house is noted as Historic Homes of Camden,No. 4.                           

In 1912, the house was demolished and a modern "stacked shoe box" two story structure was built, finished in 1913. The House at 103 Harrison, later 134 Harrison, the one across the street from the court house, diagonal from the Methodist Church.
From the upstairs bedroom, I watched the Hotel Camden at Harrison and Jackson being built.
Mother and I walked down to the Ingham Library to check out books before the new Public Library was built across the street from The House on Harrison Street and across from the Methodist Church.
We experienced so much history from that corner.

The house was built 1912-1913 at the corner of Harrison and Jefferson.

It is this larger house whose secrets are revealed. Well, some of them.

The House on Harrison Street will be launched during the Camden Daffodil Festival March 11-12-13, 2016.