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The site on Quick Hill
The grandparents house stood on a narrow section of land directly across from the original family house site. The property is enclosed by fencing and associated with the nearby lime operation that dominates the modern approach to Quick Hill.
State Highway 45 now runs close to the former site. Although the house was long reported to have burned in the late 1970s, pieces of limestone and other remains photographed on the hill suggest that part of its physical history may survive.
The nearby industrial history is documented further on the White Lime page.
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The Quick family
Jonathan Quick shared photographs and family research tracing the property to William S. Thompson, who purchased two tracts of land in 1870 and is believed to have built the house for his family.
After Thompson’s death, the property was sold to Peter Quick. Peter and Sally Stark Quick raised five children there: Emma, Marie, Edith, Edward, and Erik. Family photographs preserve the people and everyday life connected to the hill long before the film arrived.
Norma Quick’s bedroom wallpaper is tied to Sally’s reference to zebras in the film, one of the small details connecting the fictional family history to a real home.
