private-residence

Updated: June 14, 2025

So to the left of this napkin-ring, on a slightly risin' ground, just here where I raise the cloth, is where the homes of the people will be erected. I have the refusal" here the colonel lowered his voice "of two thousand acres of the best private-residence land in the county, contiguous to this very spot, which I can buy for fo' dollars an acre.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Colonel Carter of Cartersville