History at the Old Stone Fort - Plate and Compass

Written By The Mountain Eagle on 9/19/25 | 9/19/25

Blue Transferware Plate

This 19th-century plate is believed to have belonged to one of Timothy Murphy’s wives, likely his second wife, Mary Robertson and sent to us by the Old Stone Fort’s Clay Edmunds It features a

pastoral scene of Dalguise, Perthshire, Scotland. The plate was later passed from Mrs. Anne Murphy to Miss Margaret B. Vroman.

Surveyor’s Compass

This compass belonged to Pulaski Rust, a surveyor who lived in the towns of Broome and Middleburgh during the late 19th century. His daughter, Jessie W. Rust, donated it to the Historical Society in 1944.