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Historical Highway MarkersChurch QuarterE-111
The two-room log house, a rare survivor of a once-common house type, was built about 1843 probably by Sarah Thornton, whose father-in-law John Thornton acquired the property in 1790. On 16 July 1862, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and his staff stopped here and requested some water. The woman who lived here provided him a pitcher from which to drink. On learning Jackson's identity, she refused to let anyone else drink from it, saying that she would give it to her children as a memento of Jackson's visit. The Scotchtown Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution purchased and restored the cabin in 1969.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Ashley M. Neville, Gray & Pape, Inc., to Betty Kniesche, 28 February 2000 (includes document Church Quarter Land Tax Records); Susan Leigh Blackford, Letters From Lee’s Army or Memoirs of Life In and Out of The Army of Virginia, During the War Between the States (1942; New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, Inc., 1962, 90-91; Church Quarter, National Register of Historic Places Nomination File (042-0006), DHR. Proposed Dedication Date: September 2000 |