THE GRANT HOUSE (at times called the Pioneer House or Marble House)…

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g examples, but there were many, many of these pio- neer women, grandmothers and great- grandmothers of many of our present- day prominent families, whose stories were never told but whose pioneering spirit, equaled and even surpassed that of the two whose story you have read. THE GRANT HOUSE (at times called the Pioneer House or Marble House) in Shakespeare, near present day Lordsburg, was built and added to between 1858 and 1872. Meals were served here to stagecoach passengers. During the 1870’s the late Caesar Brock, pioneer Grant County rancher, hunted the meat served — deer and antelope. The sign (which was not there in the old days) is a quote of Mr. Brock’s when asked about the Grant House menu of the ’70’s. This front dining room was also used as a hanging room because of the convenient timbering. A list of those hung here is not available. or meet a more deserved fate. From almost all gun did not work well, and while fooling with sections of the county comes similar reports. The law so far has proven inadequate to the occasion, and the example set at Georgetown will doubtless soon be followed in several sec- tions. Another Shooting