“Tannery Owner Adam Hickman built this Carpenter Gothic House as a wedding present for his daughter. The house has three steeply pitched front gables of varying sizes have bargeboards dripping with wooden icicles. Along with a large leaded bay window and a wraparound porch with sawn balustrades and custom columns, the house sports enough ornate …
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What Did People Do in Old Abingdon; a closer look
Lewis Thomson Cosby’s entry about The Washington House and the venerable Tavern next door is succinct: “…known far and near as ‘The Washington House’, kept by John C. Cummings, Esq…. [t]his ‘Tavern,’ as they were then called, was liberally patronized by the public. “Next is a small frame house still standing used as a shop …
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What did people do in Old Abingdon?
“Abingdon, the county seat, is 304 miles SW. of Richmond… The town stands on an elevation; it is substantially built, with many brick buildings; the principle street is macamadized, and the town is surrounded by a fertile, flourishing, and thickly settled agricultural country. It contains several large mercantile stores, 2 newspaper printing offices, 1 Presbyterian, …