The best asparagus?

Kerr Farms of Chatham!

I have a strong bias but I think a lot of people would readily agree with me on that issue.

A little more on that later in this story.

Recently, a member of my Facebook group, Chatham History, posed a question regarding the age and origin of the old brick house along the main driveway at Kerr Farms on Indian Creek Road East.

Curious myself, I contacted Matt Hunter of Kerr farms who lives in the house and he dates the structure from as early as the 1890s.

I believe the house was erected by an early property owner known as Edward B. Smith who was born in Harwich Township on Nov. 3, 1845 and died at Chatham on Oct. 3, 1910.

He reposes in nearby Maple Leaf Cemetery.

His wife was Jane Roddick Smith, who was born at Northumberland County in 1846 and died at Chatham on January 9, 1914; she reposes with her husband at........

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