Stone Heritage

Roger Ross has spent 15 years researching every layer of his 1680s Dutch Colonial farmhouse in Wawarsing — the Lenape settlement burned by militiamen in 1663, the French Huguenot refugees who built the house, the five enslaved residents he found in the records, the Revolutionary War battle plaque outside his front door he still hasn't decided what to do with. "This house shows the good, the bad, and the truly ugly of America's story."