Here are a couple of photographs of Cherry Vale in much earlier times. I’m guessing they were taken in the early 1900s, not sure who the photographers were, though a self-portrait can be seen in the lower left of the second one! I can’t recognize the driver of the wagon either… The rear part of Cherry Vale is the older part (built mid-late 1700s) while the front part was built by John Napolean Frierson celebrating his marriage to Catherine Kellogg Converse (m. May 2, 1844). What do you make of the structures built along the porch of the rear house in the second photo?
I’m also giving below a link to a transcription I typed of a hand-written history of Cherry Vale I found that was written by Nelson Frierson in 1944. It gives the history of the house and some of the people connected to it…
