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direction of the Louisville Grain Elevator, shown in the upper right hand corner of the image <br />and labeled "Elevator." This was also where the spur joined the main track. A lumber business <br />appears on the map as being approximately across the street from 421 County Rd. The map <br />also shows the nearby Acme Mine dump located in the middle of what is now Main Street. <br />j <br />a <br />a <br />4 <br />ME <br />I) <br />V <br />ft <br />134 <br />PP RKV1EW ST. <br />Romano Ownership, 1908-1919 <br />In 1908, Francesca Romano purchased this parcel from H.W. Hastings. Census records indicate <br />that she was born in New York in about 1875 and that her husband, Michael Romano, had been <br />born in Italy in about 1866. The 1910 census records show them to be living in what strongly <br />appears to be the house at 421 County Rd. with their son, Tony, who had been born in New <br />York in about 1896. It is possible that they were related to other Louisville residents by the <br />name of Romano who lived in this part of Louisville, but this could not be documented. Michael <br />and Francesca Romano are also listed in the 1916 and 1918 Louisville directories (the only <br />residential directories that cover the period of their ownership) as living in this house. Michael <br />Romano worked as a coal miner. <br />To give some context to the site, 421 County Rd. is one of four existing houses in a row on the <br />west side of the street and currently surrounded by County Road on the east, Parkview on the <br />south, and S. Front on the west and north. Historically, however, there were five houses on <br />these lots, and the railroad spur to the Acme mine ran along the north side of the northernmost <br />house, which is the property in question (421 County Rd.). <br />B. Franklin "Frank" Giles owned four of these five houses. 421 County is the only one that he <br />did not own. (The reason that today there are just four houses is that one of the two rental <br />houses owned by Frank Giles was moved across the street by Lin Schreiter in the 1930s and is <br />now 404 County Rd. This was confirmed by Frank and Etta Giles' granddaughter, Sylvia Fotis, <br />who grew up at 417 County Rd., and is supported by County property records.) <br />2 <br />