the 18th century was the iris tract because folks from northern ireland who didn't consider themself iric, they were the ulster scott orb the scots-irish. but those folks made up a huge population, more than the germans. but throughout the valley, there was a scattering of english, scott scot, irish and others as well. but where we are sitting now is referred to as the irish track and to the north where this house was originally built would have had more folks from the area of germany. this was the family -- at one point in the early 19th century there was 12 children that survived to adulthood. they were fortunate. they were not slave owners. that was a large part of the economy here in the valley but most folks didn't own slaves. and these folks were fortunate to have that number of children to help work the land. so you know, their activities fluctuated with the seasons, for growing crops. generally the men worked in the field but the women would work alongside them because on a family farm everybody had to help. but there were differences in labor. right here we're bringing in the hay