Prospect Place

Prospect Place
Trinway, Ohio
July 28th 2010

Investigator notes from Nicole.
Shortly after arriving at Prospect Place myself, Teresa and Amber Had to use the bathroom. Several other team members were already in central command setting up when we came back down. The second floor was very hot so Teresa went in to the room to the back left on the first floor trying to find a cool spot when she came upon a bunch of art work. For some reason her attention was drawn to the wall by her right shoulder. There beside her was a drawing on wood of a man on horseback. She then heard very clearly an African American male say "Dats da patty-roller"! She then looked around startled and there was nobody there. The emotion she picked up from the man who spoke to her was fear. She then went on trying to understand what this word was and what it meant but could not think of it for nothing.

She then came and found me and brought me into the room and showed me the picture. She then asked me if I picked anything from the picture. My response was "He's coming to get us" She then related to me her story and asked me if I had ever heard the word. We then found Chris and asked him if he knew what the word meant or had heard it before. Chris said that he had no idea what it might be and we left it at that for the time being.

Later during the investigation we were getting activity in the barn. We were seeing a light and what looked like a figure in the top of the barn. We heard footsteps and heard voices when no one else was there. I felt strongly that the activity came from the "He's coming to get us" that i got in the room with all the art and that it had to be the person the male was talking about as a patty-roller. We still did not know what the word meant. After returning home I looked for the word on-line as Teresa does not have internet.I then found on-line that this word was used in the 1800's with the slaves and it was a word used for a bounty hunter.
Definition of Paddy roller: Paddy-rollers was a group of people. These were people who chased and rounded up escaped slaves and took them back to their owners

History

"Prospect Place" was the home of the George Willison Adams family of Dresden, Ohio, in the 19th & 20th centuries. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is currently in the process of being restored. In the 1850s and 1860s the house was a station on the "Underground Railroad". Although a few fine homes remain in Dresden from this era, Prospect Place is the last remaining Dresden area mansion (There were five: Prospect Place; River Dale; Mulberry Grove; Maple Hollow and Elm Grove), the others have met the fate of time and neglect and are no more. These were the homes of the "Lords of the Valley", men of great influence and wealth who helped tame a new land and create a community. We are restoring this home as a memorial to times gone by and to give the Dresden area back a piece of an ever-vanishing history.

The house was purchased from the Longaberger Company of Newark, Ohio. We would like to express our gratitude and thanks for all of their help in obtaining this property and especially to Tami and Rachel Longaberger, also Bob Ziegler and his assistant Joyce. Special gratitude is expressed to the late Dave Longaberger who had a vision like ours for the house and who saved it by placing a new roof on the house in the late 1980s

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