"Where it Started"
Inside front cover of The Baileys of Baileytown
Author: Norman W. Bailey
Published 1945

From a map of Cumberland County dated 1862
Publisher: A. Pomeroy, Philadelphia, PA

From
D. L. Steward's Atlas of Cumberland County dated 1876
"Down and Commercial Townships"
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
World War II
The map on the left shows the Baileytown area as an aerial target range.
Abandoned homes and farms are indicated by numbers written in blue ink.
The six diagrams below show each of these locations in more detail and include the former owner's name.


A cousin visited
Baileytown in 1992 with two elderly aunts and an uncle .
The result was
this hand drawn map, which shows current landmarks and measured
distances to sites they recalled.