Old Salem: 512 Salt Street

Never has walking the dog yielded something more snicker-worthy because yes, inside I’m a twelve year old boy. According to Digital Forsyth:

Carpenter Martin Lick built this log house in 1786. It was purchased in 1796 by John Leinbach, a shoemaker who also traded in salt and flax seed, and ran an oil mill at another location. A few years after Leinbach’s death, Thomas Jacob Boner and his wife Phoebe bought the house. They had four children, one of whom was the noted poet John Henry Boner (1845-1902). As well as publishing several volumes of poetry, John Henry Boner worked at the General Printing Office in Washington, DC, and as literary editor of the New York World newspaper. The house was restored in 1951-1952.

And that, children, is the story of the Lick-Boner house.