Describing Resley’s Creek in 1913, Sarah Catherine Lattimore, early Dublin historian, noted that “one passes the spot where R.C. Oldham was baptized, and looks in vain for a suggestion of the deep water that was there then. Farther stands the big live oaks beneath whose spreading branches stretched above was built a grocery, the scene of many a carouse, but afterwords became the happy home of newly weds. Nearby is another majestic oak in whose shade was the log cabin, accommodating a school on week days, the hogs at night, but swept and garnished by the good women for Sunday preaching.”

Sarah Cathrine Lattimore, Incidents in the History of Dublin, 1913 (Copied for the Dublin Public Library by Mollie Louise Grisham, 1967).