Whoever is living there now is probably asked why the letter L is on the chimney.  I was asked this too when I lived there.  I was the second occupant of the home built back in the '50s.

I bought the home from Mrs. Ligion about 4 months before she passed away.  She moved to a nursing home and lived there about a year.  This was my first home.  And, of course, the letter L is for her last name.  She and her husband built the house.

I went under contract with my first home Christmas day of 1990.  I had recently relocated to this area and was renting a room from a friend at Palm Park Apartments on Leon.  Though I was ready to have my own place it was awhile before I moved in.

When I would go over to the house, though it was vacant, I never felt like it was mine.  I found a few incidentals articles that she had left behind.  And when spring came, I could see how well she had loved the yard.  There wasn't much symetry to the plantings (a bush stuck here and bulbs stuck there) but I could tell that she would much rather be there on Duke Homestead.  I would go over and renovate but always knew it was still her home.  Later in the spring of 1991, she passed away.  After about a week, I felt like it was okay to move in.  After removing 52 stumps from the yard, it begin to feel like home.