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The previous owner of 421 County as well as of the garden lots was Francesca Romano. She had acquired the two parcels in three transactions between 1908 and 1918. The following excerpt from the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map shows the house at 421 County as the fifth house from the bottom in the row of houses on the west side of County Rd., shown on the right of the image. (The small structure on the very north end of the row of structures has not been identified.) The map shows how the Acme Mine railroad spur extended from the Acme Mine, shown on the left side of the image and located at Roosevelt & Hutchinson, towards the east and northeast in the direction of the Louisville Grain Elevator, shown in the upper right hand corner of the image and labeled "Elevator." This was also where the spur joined the main track. A lumber business appears on the map as being approximately across the street from 421 County Rd. The map also shows the nearby Acme Mine dump located in the middle of what is now Main Street. The lots on which the house at 929 Parkview would be later built are Lots 7- 13 and they can be seen long the bottom of the image. Genaro, who also went by the name James, was born in Italy in 1883 and died in 1962. Aldovina Martella Madonna was born in Italy in 1894 and died in 1982. Genaro had a brother, John, who also lived in Louisville with his family, and Aldovina had sisters who lived with their families in Louisville, leading to this family being closely related to a number of other Italian families in the area. Genaro Madonna worked as a coal miner. It was at 421 County that Genaro and Aldovina Madonna raised their children, who were Anthony Joseph "Joe" (1917-1984); Lois Madonna McDaniel (1919-2008); Violanda Madonna Mason (1920-2004); and Vincenzo "Jim" Salvatore Madonna (1921-2004). 2