A piece of history linked to the founding family of Provemont chugged south at 3 mph last week to its new foundation.
Built with solid bones — including studs harvested from the Schaub property and sliced to exacting two-inch by fourinch dimensions — the house formerly owned by prodigious reader and librarian Theresa Schaub was moved about onehalf mile from the north to the south end of the original homestead owned by Jacob and Marguerite Schaub.
“It only took 33 minutes to get from the old foundation to my driveway, and then four hours to get it on the foundation and nailed down,” recalled Katie Gill, who grew up within eyeshot of the home. “I thought my dad was going to cry when he saw it going down the road. All my uncles, my brother, my grandmother came over to have pizza on lawn chairs in the living room.”
