In 1979, we visited the Hardee home site and found an elderly woman rocking on the porch of a one-story farm house. She said that she and her husband had bought the house and property many years before. Because the old (original Hardee home seen here) house was so dilapidated, they decided to “pull it down” and build a new one on the old foundations which surrounded a basement. She did not say what happened to the wood, but that the huge chimneys seen in the photograph, of handmade clay brick, were pushed over into the basement hole to fill it up. We asked for permission to dig (shallowly) to retrieve any of the handmade clay bricks. She agreed, and we found 3-4 which were intact (there were many others), and several still had fingerprints on them from who ever had made the bricks some 250 years ago.