In 1967, Edwin T Schultz purchased the Peacock property in June 1969, Mr. Shultz moved his business from Haddonfield to the new location.

The old Peacock Farm faced on the Berlin Road and extended from the present McPhelin Avenue to the hill down the Berlin Road where Ice House Lane joins Berlin Road. In this area was Abbott's Pond which in wintertime supplied ice to Haddonfield and Philadelphia. As the Peacock family narrowed down, there were eventually three sisters, all unmarried, remaining. One was eccentric and would not allow a wire in the house. Another was known only by her apron-strings as they disappeared around the corner when company came.

Debbie, the remaining sister, was the smart one. She was the first graduate from the Moore Art Institute in Philadelphia. She was also a teacher, and the sketch printed with this article was done by her at the age of twelve in 1882.

When Debbie desired a telephone, she made special arrangements with the telephone company that all the wires be concealed and when she desired a radio set, she contacted with Howard Griffeth who supplied her with a radio set which was powered with the old square "B" batteries.

There was a hole cut in the dining room rug and the wires lay crisscross under the rug for the aerial, so that Philadelphia reception was very good.

When Winner Ford purchased the acreage of the farm, Mr. Schultz did not realize that the old farmstead that faced there on Berlin Road had historic value. He was unaware that Walt Whitman, on his way to Laurel Springs, used the side porch of the house as a resting spot.

The house was later vandalized and was eventually torn down. One day, Mr. E, Sanski, Haddonfield artist, presented Miss Debbie's pencil sketch to Mr. Shultz, saying that as he was owner of the property he should have the sketch.

Thanks, Bill Stokes, for the copy that you made of the original sketch, and thanks Ed Shultz and Howard Griffeth, for the information that made this article possible.