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Tour Newark and Arcadia homes The sixth Newark-Arcadia House Tour is being planned by the Newark-Arcadia Historical Society. The tour is Saturday, September 16, and will include seven homes and the Marbletown Centennial Schoolhouse. Two old homes from East Palmyra are included. They are the Langdon home and the Hoad Bed & Breakfast on Whitbeck Road. Both were built in the early 1800s and have connections to the Sherman family, early area settlers. The Victorian residence at 457 West Maple, owned by Art and Mary Novik, was built in 1905 by George A. Burnham, president of the Edgett-Burnham Canning Company. The home is just west of C.H. Perkins Elementary School. East Newark, once named Lockville, is represented with the showing of the Years residence at 345 East Union. The Years family has owned the home since 1949, with the former owner being businessman E. Douglas Colburn, after whom Colburn Park was named. Located at 114 Jefferson Street, in the heart of the village, is the Dawn and John Strait home. It is an excellent example of a craftsman bungalow construction, complete with a driveway cover. On West Sherman Avenue, one of three identical brick double houses will be on the tour. Frank and Pat Zappia of 110 West Sherman will show their home, which has an interesting canal-town history. Out in Marbletown, a once thriving hamlet until the building of the canal, the Bed & Breakfast farm of the Edith and Dan Benedict at 6769 Miller Road, will be open for inspection. Refreshments will be available at the Marbletown Schoolhouse, also open for the tour. The one-room schoolhouse, a project of the Newark-Arcadia Historical Society, and used by schools for learning, was built by Newark builder S.N. Keener in 1876. Copyright
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