Building date: 1849
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°15'18.79"N 83°49'35.34"W. Current owner of record, Reach as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Scio Township and Washtenaw County Maps.
The Rufus Knight home at 4494 Scio Church Road also has a similar look except for smaller upstairs windows. Knight, a miller who arrived in this area in 1826 from Wheatville, New York, was a pathfinder who, according to the 1891 Washtenaw County Portrait and Biographical Album, "ground the first grist which ever went between the stones in this county." He set another record - the first marriage to be entered in the county archives, when he married Sallie Scott in 1827. The 1891 book's description of Knight ends, "The old cobble stone house is still in use and as good as ever although it was erected as long ago as 1849." Richard Palmer blog.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Sommers House
- Pages 212 - 213, Page 323
 Sci-2 4944 Scio Church Rd 1.jpg ¹ |  Sci-2 4944 Scio Church Rd 2.jpg ¹ |  Sci-2 4944 Scio Church Rd 3.jpg ¹ |  Knight House Scio Church.jpg ² |
¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Photography courtesy John Hilton. Richard Palmer blog.
