NOV. 26 ISSUE ANSWERS: This location in the Romeo business district is my favorite to unravel. Over the next two weeks this location will become clearer. The Birds-Eye-Map made in 1868 shows the Ashael and Cynthia Bailey home at the northeast corner where the gas station is today. The buildings at the top are on North Main. The diagonal road to the left is East St. Clair. The Bailey orchard is where the current Romeo Diner is today. “Mr. Bailey drove an oxcart to Mt. Clemens to purchase small trees for 25 cents each, which Cynthia gladly set out in the rain.” Day, secretary of the Romeo Historical Society, 1874. The house at the corner is Bailey’s first frame house. Mrs. and Mr. Bailey sold their original log homestead on North Bailey Street, and in the fall of 1833, after many trips to the north woods with oxen for retrieving logs, their second house was complete, at the northeast corner of Main and St. Clair where the gas station is today. Sawmills were available at that time to process his logs into lumber. Day, 1874 This second homestead of the Baileys was replaced later with a new home on South Main which was the rectory of St. Clemens Church and was moved to a new site on Sission Street. It is there now. Next week is about what replaced this home site. Richard Beringer RHS Curator