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Boy Scout creates Loghurst timeline
By EMILY GIANETTI
Marcus Masello wanted to do something special for the Valley as part of his Eagle Scout project. So, he decided to research the history of Western Reserve’s oldest remaining log home.
He recently finished putting up a timeline at the Loghurst Farmhouse on Boardman-Canfield Road that chronicles events and facts about the house from 1780 to 2011. The project was dedicated Oct. 16.
“The Loghurst, like all history, is important so that future generations can know what rural life was like here in the Mahoning Valley,” said Masello on the significance of the building now.
The Boardman High School sophomore got the idea from a member of the Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table, a group he and his father are involved with.
The project took about five months to find and source facts, to check for authenticity and to put the actual timeline together. It contains facts about the house, Canfield Township and even the world.
The Loghurst Farmhouse was built in 1805 as a home for the Conrad Naff family. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, it was owned by several farming families and even functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad from 1835 to 1845.
Masello hopes people will become more educated on the events that occurred in the local area as well as in the world over the course of centuries.
He has been a Boy Scout and a Cub Scout for a total of seven years and he will become an Eagle Scout after he completes the Eagle Scout Board of Review in November. Fewer than 5 percent of all Boy Scouts actually make it to the rank of Eagle.
“Some of America’s greatest men, such as Dwight Eisenhower and Neil Armstrong, were Eagle Scouts and I would like to follow in their footsteps,” said Masello.
After high school, Masello aspires to go on to the West Point Military Academy for a degree in Computer Science. He knows that all he learned in Boy Scouts will help prepare him for the challenge.