Mill Hollow Clippings: Mill Hollow or Swift's Hollow?

From my walk last night in the Bacon Woods

The earliest mention of Mill Hollow in the online archives of the Lorain Journal is from December 7, 1923. The article is about the mysterious fire that destroyed the Joseph Swift mansion (which later gave rise to the legend of Gore Orphanage.)

The problem? The writer mixed up Mill Hollow with Swift's Hollow (which is where the house was actually located). About halfway through the article, the reporter seemed to realize his mistake.

But the problems don't end there. 

Just about every fact in the article is hilariously wrong: the timbers used to build the house were not brought from Maine; the Swift family did not die one by one, leaving "Col. Swift" alone in the house; he did not go for a horse and buggy ride and mysteriously disappear forever, except for his saddle which was found a short distance from the house.

It's almost all hokum. Perhaps the writer was just having fun.

Just about the only thing that is correct is that the house was owned at that time by Mrs. E. L. Coen of Vermilion. She has a short quote in an article that appeared the next day. 

Both articles are below.

A few years later, Ralph Neumeyer waxed nostalgic about the loss of the Swift mansion (and its ghosts) in this article that appeared in the Lorain Journal on June 5, 1926.