About 1815, Jason Torrey, Abisha Woodward, and Moses Kellam bought the place later called the Daniels farm, built a frame house, called it New Castle, carried on lumbering there on a large scale for many years, and then sold the premises to Joseph Atkinson, who sold to Russell Daniels of Connecticut. Daniels became a noted lumberman and for many years kept a public house, while lumber manufactured at New Castle was in demand at Philadelphia. Russell Daniels and his wife Cynthia were among the earliest inhabitants of the area, and after purchasing the property they cleared and farmed it while raising eight children to adulthood there. They were probably living in the house when the canal was built behind it and, beginning in 1829, boats locked through daily, while about the same time a plank road, now PA Rt. 6, was built on the other side of the house between Honesdale and Hawley. After Russell died in 1863, Cynthia advertised the farm for sale on August 13 of that year, and later in 1863 their third son, Ira Daniels, agreed to buy out the interests of his mother and siblings and lived there with his wife Margaret. By 1872 the house was identified as Ira Daniels's, but fifteen years later the property was sold at sheriff's sale to settle his debts to family members and two hundred dollars owed to Patrick Weir, the nearby lock tender for the previous fourteen years. Thomas V. Taft bought the property for $1,525 and on the same day, February 28, 1878, sold it for $5,000 to Ernst A. Hintze, retaining lumber rights for seven years except for twenty-five nut trees. Born in Germany, Hintze had come to America at eighteen and become a grocer in Brooklyn, extensively remodeled the house, opened part of it as a hotel called Hintze's, lived there with his family, ran a small store serving boatmen until the canal closed twenty-one years later, and regularly obtained a liquor license while locals also gathered there for dances. After Hintze died at age 61, his wife sought another liquor license in 1902 but also sold the property that year. Ownership changed several times until 1910, when Annie Marie Hopes Selberg of Queens acquired the property for $1.00, beginning ninety-one years of Selberg family residence in the house through deaths by natural causes, fire, and suicide. She and her husband John Henry Selberg moved in with their children Frederick William, Anna Katherine, and May Eva, and their last child, William Walter, was born five years after the purchase. After Annie's death, the property passed equally to her four unmarried adult children living there, and after his siblings died William lived alone in the house for twenty years until he took his own life. He left the property to a cousin, Robert Olson, whose son and young family lived there briefly. In 2001, the Wayne County Historical Society bought the relatively unchanged house and ten and a half surrounding acres from Robert Olson's widow Debbie, adding it to the mile of canal and towpath it already owned, and thereafter devoted major effort and resources to stabilization and restoration of a large, well-constructed building that combined heavy timber late eighteenth-century Colonial barn framing techniques with vertical board plank construction.