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The Plan to Retire:
1821 -- Gallatin begins contemplating retirement from public service. Friendship Hill and the Western Country are beckoning. The simple, four-room, frontier homestead, left behind years before, would no longer accommodate the substantially larger, older, and more sophisticated Gallatin family. Once again, Gallatin decides to enlarge the existing house. Albert Rolaz is sent home from Paris to supervise the construction of the addition which is called the Stone House. |