If these walls could talk... they do!

 When you renovate an old house, you usually are really surprised at what you find. Sometimes it's even what you find INSIDE the walls that makes for great stories.  We planned out the renovation so that we tried to preserve as much of the plaster and lathe as possible, and only removed what we absolutely needed to.  The kitchen was a complete re-do, so hundreds of pounds of plaster had to go.  When we started to remove a section of the outside wall, we found two really cool items inside the wall. 

 One was a yardstick from the local company Chas. David. Which, through the years has now become David and Sons. We also found a rolled up American flag with 48 stars on it. You wonder who thought to put these in the walls, and why? 

We also found a doctor's return to work note, dated 1927, when we moved an old cabinet out of the kitchen. 

When we got it, the house was a duplex, with a staircase on the porch to go to the second floor. On the wall of the plaster, someone had written 1929 with their finger in paint, we assume when they were creating the duplex. And we found an old punch card for newspaper delivery from 1949.

I wanted to leave our mark on the house inside the walls too.. so after much thought, I left this note....