Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hook Tavern, Harner Homestead, William Boggs Farm, Boyd Avenue Historic District, Sites Homestead, Frye's Inn, John Evans House (Martinsburg, West Virginia). Not illustrated. Excerpt: Hook Tavern's front elevation viewed from U.S. Route 50.Hook Tavern is a late 18th-century tavern along the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50) east of Capon Bridge in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Located near the eastern base of Bear Garden Mountain in the Mill Branch valley, Hook Tavern was constructed along the Northwestern Turnpike between the 1790s and 1800s on property belonging to early Hampshire County settler Peter Mauzy. In 1840, the property was purchased by the Hook family who began operating the building as a tavern. Samuel Hook and John B. Sherrard obtained a hotel license on May 26, 1848 to operate the tavern as a fully functioning hotel. On June 1, 1862, Hook paid $10 for another hotel keeper's license. During the American Civil War, on February 3, 1862, J. A. Hunter of the Confederate States Army stated that because of severe weather, it was necessary for the Confederates to commandeer Samuel Hook's tavern and wood for the comfort of 80 sick men in his charge. Renovations in July 1956 revealed the name and date "William C. Black, May 7, 1845" on a plaster wall. Other names and remarks discovered included: "I can throw any mule driver on the road, John New" and "Too much snuff, McCauley" dated May 7, 1853. The Hook family and its descendants owned the tavern and its surrounding property from 1840 until 1987 when it was purchased by real estate developer Edward Noble of Atlanta, Georgia. The tavern and its adjacent three acres are current for sale. Hook Tavern is an ell-shaped structure with one leg parallel to U.S. Route 50 and the othe... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21890491We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I-House Architecture in West Virginia: Hook Tavern, Harner Homestead, William Boggs Farm, Boyd Avenue Historic District, Sites Homestead. To get started finding I-House Architecture in West Virginia: Hook Tavern, Harner Homestead, William Boggs Farm, Boyd Avenue Historic District, Sites Homestead, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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28
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1158291736
I-House Architecture in West Virginia: Hook Tavern, Harner Homestead, William Boggs Farm, Boyd Avenue Historic District, Sites Homestead
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hook Tavern, Harner Homestead, William Boggs Farm, Boyd Avenue Historic District, Sites Homestead, Frye's Inn, John Evans House (Martinsburg, West Virginia). Not illustrated. Excerpt: Hook Tavern's front elevation viewed from U.S. Route 50.Hook Tavern is a late 18th-century tavern along the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50) east of Capon Bridge in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Located near the eastern base of Bear Garden Mountain in the Mill Branch valley, Hook Tavern was constructed along the Northwestern Turnpike between the 1790s and 1800s on property belonging to early Hampshire County settler Peter Mauzy. In 1840, the property was purchased by the Hook family who began operating the building as a tavern. Samuel Hook and John B. Sherrard obtained a hotel license on May 26, 1848 to operate the tavern as a fully functioning hotel. On June 1, 1862, Hook paid $10 for another hotel keeper's license. During the American Civil War, on February 3, 1862, J. A. Hunter of the Confederate States Army stated that because of severe weather, it was necessary for the Confederates to commandeer Samuel Hook's tavern and wood for the comfort of 80 sick men in his charge. Renovations in July 1956 revealed the name and date "William C. Black, May 7, 1845" on a plaster wall. Other names and remarks discovered included: "I can throw any mule driver on the road, John New" and "Too much snuff, McCauley" dated May 7, 1853. The Hook family and its descendants owned the tavern and its surrounding property from 1840 until 1987 when it was purchased by real estate developer Edward Noble of Atlanta, Georgia. The tavern and its adjacent three acres are current for sale. Hook Tavern is an ell-shaped structure with one leg parallel to U.S. Route 50 and the othe... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21890491We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I-House Architecture in West Virginia: Hook Tavern, Harner Homestead, William Boggs Farm, Boyd Avenue Historic District, Sites Homestead. To get started finding I-House Architecture in West Virginia: Hook Tavern, Harner Homestead, William Boggs Farm, Boyd Avenue Historic District, Sites Homestead, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.