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Waterford Fair

81st American Crafts & Historic Homes Tour

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Jennings, Stan and Sue

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Stan and Sue Jennings

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Waterford Landmark Artisan

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We begin with logs, mill them to specific thicknesses, air dry it then bring it to our shop to begin the creation process.  We use only WV hardwoods, cherry, maple beech and birch are the main woods we use.  We have over 180 items in our kitchen ware line.  Starting with patterns we trace onto our boards, we then band saw these out.  We use router, hand gouges, combination sanders and a lot of elbow grease to create our treenware.  Our items are found across the country in gift shops and also on the Food notwork being used by popular chef, Damaris Phillips.  We attend a small number of shows a year so we can stay connected to our loyal followers.  We enjoy our lifestyle greatly and appreciate our success.  Without a doubt we are truly blessed.

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Wolf, Susan

Gourds by Suzanna, LLC.

Mixed Media

My love for gourd art stems from my horticultural interests coupled with my desire to produce a functional as well as decorative product. To briefly describe my work, I pencil a design onto a gourd surface which is used as a template to carve or wood burn the design. To carve, I use woodworking tools, called gouges. By varying the size of the gouge and the position and length of the cut I achieve different designs. On occasion I relief carve with a power carver. After carving I embellish with dyes, acrylics, metallic rubs or patinas. I also use pine needles, sliced walnuts, brass knobs.

I am originally from Lancaster, PA. After receiving my Ph.D. in Biology from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, I moved to VA in 1988 to conduct research at the UVA, Charlottesville, VA and subsequently at a VA Tech Research Station in Winchester, VA. In 2004 I left research to start Gourds by Suzanna LLC . I am currently self-employed and work out of my home in Toms Brook, Virginia.

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Hollingsworth-Lee House

40135 Main Street

This two-story brick house was built sometime between 1816 and 1827.  Notice the Dog-tooth cornice and the jack arches over the openings, features this house shares with Wisteria Cottage next door.  

At the time of the Civil War, the owner of the house, Robert Hollingsworth, a Quaker schoolteacher from Winchester, was an outspoken defender of the Union, which he supported “now and forever.” 

In September 1863 Confederate General Jeb Stuart ordered the seizure of two prominent Waterford Quakers as hostages to secure the release of two secessionists from Federal prison.  The men to be captured were insurance company president William Williams and Asa Bond, the owner of the tanyard across the street.  Williams, who lived on Second Street, was taken as he and his wife Mary were entertaining guests in their parlor.  

By the time the Rebels reached this end of town, Bond had been warned.  As Bond slipped out the back, his daughter Mrs. Rachel Means and a niece Miss Laura Bond challenged the soldiers at the door and, from all reports, put up a good fight.  Miss Bond fired a revolver at the Rebels.  This diversion allowed Bond to escape, but Robert Hollingsworth, the owner of this house, was seized instead.  

The two hostages were sent to Richmond’s Castle Thunder Prison.  Efforts to secure their release continued into December, when Mrs. Mary Williams set off for Washington with a letter to President Lincoln and a petition signed by 85 Union supporters from Loudoun County.  President Lincoln heard their pleas at the White House and jotted a note to the commissioner for prisoner exchange.  

Even after Mary Williams’ trip, the process of securing the prisoners’ release did not go smoothly, but finally the prisoners were released and arrived in Waterford on Christmas Eve 1863.

The Griffith-Gover House is open through the courtesy of Jonathan Daniel and Lee Spangler.

Griffith-Gover Property

40139 Main Street

This property backing up to the Phillips Farm comprises three of the fifteen lots in Waterford’s 1792 subdivision. Quaker merchant Richard Griffith was leasing the property by 1796, and by 1799 it included a two-story log house and a store. In 1819 his son Israel sold a portion of the property to fellow Quaker Jesse Gover, who operated a store and “hat manufactory” among other enterprises. Gover bought the rest of the property in 1836.

His son Samuel, in turn, served the village for many years as storekeeper and postmaster. Sam’s Union sympathies made his store a target of Confederate raids during the Civil War. By then the current property included the house and two substantial weatherboard buildings along the street to the left, that were later owned by William French.

Early in the 20th century the James family acquired the land and buildings. Edgar Clayton James operated a store here. When he died in 1918, his widow, the former Annie Elizabeth “Lizzie” Hough, ran a boardinghouse to make ends meet—the Oldtown Inn. Clarence Hopkins, who married one of the James’s daughters, Carrie, was an engineer for Edison Labs. He erected a dance pavilion and large masonry megaphone for the benefit of Inn guests. At about the same time, the decrepit store buildings along the street were removed and the adjacent millrace was enlarged for canoeing.

In October 1922, the Washington Herald enthusiastically wrote:

“Waterford, Va., is now one of the busiest radio towns in the country, according to reports received here. Radio users there have constructed a loud speaking horn of concrete and granite with a diameter of six feet. The horn weighs eight tons. Folks in that vicinity now hear a variety of entertainment from Pittsburgh and other cities. When the horn was first demonstrated, one resident there, it is claimed, heard music one mile and a half away from Waterford and came down to discover what was ‘goin’ on down thar.’”

Norman Weatherholtz, a stonemason and carpenter, bought the place in 1944 and added his own touches over the years until his death in 1998. He is responsible for much of the stonework in the village, including work on this home.

Cornelia Keller of nearby Hamilton purchased the house the following year. It had fallen into considerable disrepair and presented significant challenges to Ms. Keller and her rescue team. Now, thanks to a conservation easement through the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, the house, gardens, stone wall and eclectic structures are protected in perpetuity.

Jonathan Daniel and Lee Spangler bought the house in 2014 and couldn’t be more thrilled with being its current stewards.

The Griffith-Gover House is open through the courtesy of Jonathan Daniel and Lee Spangler.

Samuel Hough House

15527 Second Street

Open on Saturday: 10am to 5pm

This Federal-style house was built in 1819 by Samuel Hough Jr., on land which he purchased for $240 in 1817. This is one of the most elegantly embellished houses in Waterford, with keystone lintels, an unusual and striking cornice, and beautifully carved interior woodwork.
 
Samuel Hough was a Quaker, but his bride was not. Waterford’s Quakers were not very tolerant of any deviation among their members, and Samuel was read out of the Meeting.  He and his wife lived in the house only a year before moving out of Waterford.  They sold the house to Samuel’s mother, Lydia Hollingsworth Hough, for $3,500, an enormous sum in those days. Lydia seems to have been very fond
of Samuel, and it was her way of passing his inheritance on to him in advance!

Jacob Scott lived in the house during the Civil War, and was “CEO” of Waterford’s largest enterprise, Loudoun Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Although the Board of Directors was split between Unionists and Secessionists, Scott and President William Williams provided the leadership to enable the company to emerge from the War in fine shape. It is still operating on High Street today.

This building is open through the courtesy of Corinne Jacques and Matt Donnelly.

Trouble Enough Indeed (#11 on map)

15552 Second Street

Open on Saturday: 10am to 1:30pm & Sunday: 1:30pm to 5pm

Trouble Enough Indeed was brought to Waterford and reconstructed from 1970 to 1980 by William and Carol Hunley.

Visitors to the Waterford Fair in the early 1970s enjoyed watching Trouble Enough Indeed take shape from the components of two log homes ca. 1850 and 1886 from Lewisdale in Montgomery County, Maryland, and an 1876 frame house from Mathews County, Virginia.  Located about three miles apart at Lewisdale, the log houses were tobacco farm houses.  The name comes from the registration of the front wing of the house in the Montgomery County deed book.

The house has been featured in Parade Magazine, in the Washington Post and on NPTV.  It has been a frequent subject for painters and passing photographers.

The log houses were dismantled and every log, stick, stone and brick moved to Waterford, cleaned and returned to its original place in the house.  Even the nails were reused.  The log construction is German “V” notch and logs were stacked one on the other with no fastenings except in the top ring of logs on which the roof rests.  In addition to the log houses and the frame house, artifacts from many well-known buildings are built into the fabric.

The dining room fireplace contains the brick from the log house, and on one side there is a brick from the old church at Jamestown.  One the other side, there is a brick from Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg.  The handmade bricks each show the print of the brick maker’s thumb from being turned when drying, and several contain cat and deer tracks made while the bricks were still soft.  The long-leaf pine heart flooring and the dining room ceiling beams were salvaged from the Carlyle Apartments that were built in 1819.  Many of the doors, windows and replacement timbers were salvaged from the house built in 1876 by William S. Hunley, shipwright, farmer and oysterman, at Retz in the Kingston Parish Glebe in Mathews County, Virginia.  Several of the doors were made in the family shipyard and are fastened with boat nails.

Trouble Enough Indeed is open through the courtesy of  the current owner Margo Noel.

Charles Merchant House (Garden Only) (#6 on map)

15539 Second Street

Open on Friday: 10am to 5pm (Garden Only)

The land on which this house stands was originally purchased from the “Mahlon Janney Estate” auction in 1814 by Isaac Walker. Later owners included Robert Braden and then William Nettle, the master joiner of Waterford, who died in 1855. The lot then passed to his wife, who died in 1879.  The first indication of a building on the property is noted on the 1875 Survey of Waterford, which shows an agricultural or work shop building on the lot. Possibly this initial building was the work shop of Waterford’s master joiner. In 1891, Franklin and Mary Steer sold the property to James T. and Sarah Merchant, who then sold the property to his son Charles A. Merchant in 1906. He and his wife, the former Anna Mary Berry (“Mamie”), who had moved to Washington D.C., returned to Waterford for the health of their infant son Leo and purchased the lot in 1906.

Charles Merchant, a carpenter and painter, contracted with John Spinks, of nearby Paeonian Springs, to build a house. It seems quite possible that the main section of the house was constructed on the foundation of the prior building, and a new stone foundation was constructed for the rear portion of the house. Merchant lived here until the early 1930s. Herb Edwards, a later owner, lived here from 1943 until his death in 1987.

The renovations done by the present owners, Antonia Walker and Timothy H. McGinn, were designed and built by Mr. McGinn. The back of the house, which originally had only one window, has been opened up with two windows and a door to a back porch, orienting the view to the farmland to the west and allowing access to the flagstone patio and herb garden.

There is a new two-story addition just off the kitchen which includes a winter studio for Ms. Walker and bathroom on the second floor. Whenever possible, vintage building materials have been used or recycled to retain the character of the original house. The back door came from the Thomas Moore house on Bond Street and the balustrade of the porch was fashioned from the old kitchen cabinets.

The Charles Merchant House Garden is open through the courtesy of present owners Antonia Walker and Tim McGinn.

Three Property Tour

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Charles Merchant Property

The land on which this house stands was originally purchased from the “Mahlon Janney Estate” auction in 1814 by Isaac Walker. Later owners included Robert Braden and then William Nettle, the master joiner of Waterford, who died in 1855. The lot then passed to his wife, who died in 1879.  The first indication of a building on the property is noted on the 1875 Survey of Waterford, which shows an agricultural or work shop building on the lot. Possibly this initial building was the work shop of Waterford’s master joiner. In 1891, Franklin and Mary Steer sold the property to James T. and Sarah Merchant, who then sold the property to his son Charles A. Merchant in 1906. He and his wife, the former Anna Mary Berry (“Mamie”), who had moved to Washington D.C., returned to Waterford for the health of their infant son Leo and purchased the lot in 1906.

Charles Merchant, a carpenter and painter, contracted with John Spinks, of nearby Paeonian Springs, to build a house. It seems quite possible that the main section of the house was constructed on the foundation of the prior building, and a new stone foundation was constructed for the rear portion of the house. Merchant lived here until the early 1930s. Herb Edwards, a later owner, lived here from 1943 until his death in 1987.

The renovations done by the present owners, Antonia Walker and Timothy H. McGinn, were designed and built by Mr. McGinn. The back of the house, which originally had only one window, has been opened up with two windows and a door to a back porch, orienting the view to the farmland to the west and allowing access to the flagstone patio and herb garden.

There is a new two-story addition just off the kitchen which includes a winter studio for Ms. Walker and bathroom on the second floor. Whenever possible, vintage building materials have been used or recycled to retain the character of the original house. The back door came from the Thomas Moore house on Bond Street and the balustrade of the porch was fashioned from the old kitchen cabinets.

The Charles Merchant House is open through the courtesy of present owners Antonia Walker and Tim McGinn

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Mahlon Schooley Property

Enter tour at the Charles Merchant Property.

Mahlon Schooley (b. 1788), who later helped establish a Quaker community in Iowa, built this brick dwelling in 1817 as part of the “New Town” development along Second Street. The original portion is a three-bay brick building with a metal gable roof and a dogtooth cornice. The house retains an architectural integrity that belies the changes that have taken place within. The large west wing was added before 1854.

In the early part of the 20th century, a fire necessitated the rebuilding of the south wall, at which time longer windows were installed. In the 1920s, the James Carr family replaced an earlier front porch with a large wrap-around version, which itself was removed in the 1960s. The foundation of the present brick stoop at the front door was part of the first porch. The Brown Morton family also restored a number of interior details, including an exact replica of the first entrance, an unusually wide nine-panel door.

The current owners undertook an extensive restoration focused on retaining as much original material as possible, while assuring the structural integrity of this house for its next two hundred years.

In the field directly behind the house, study revealed the existence of one of several brick kilns along Catoctin Creek where much of the soft brick used in village buildings was made. The pond at the bottom of the field was created in the 1960s. The small white frame building at the far corner of the field adjacent to the mill race was built in the 1920s as the village slaughter house.

The Mahlon Schooley House is open through the courtesy of Richard and Susan Rogers. The Rev. and Mrs. W. Brown Morton III, previous owners, protected the house from inappropriate change in perpetuity by the grant of a preservation easement to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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Ephraim Schooley Property

The oldest part of this house is the south end, which John Morrow, a weaver, built between 1821 and 1825, shortly before his death. Quaker Ephraim Schooley (1786-1867) acquired the property in the 1830s.

Renowned saddler Asa Brown (1794-1872) lived here in the 1850s and 60s. The Civil War split his large family down the middle. “Plucky” Asa, a veteran of the War of 1812, was a loyal Unionist, as was his son Turner and two daughters. Sons Charlie and “Ab” were “rabid secesh”
as was wife Aurena and a third daughter. Turner and Charlie had to be kept from killing each other, but all managed to survive the war, though Charlie took a Yankee bullet at the First Battle of Bull Run.

William F. Myers built the northern end of the house in 1850, and both halves (two separate dwellings) were sold to H.C. Bennett in 1876. From 1919 to 1959 the property belonged to the H.B. Parker family, another feisty bunch. Harvey, a blacksmith, came home from WWI, feuded with his brother Fred, who had run the smithy in his absence, and the two never spoke again. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Lewis purchased the property in 1959 and restored and finally united the two residences as one called the Parker-Bennett House.

Mr. and Mrs. William Chewning added a west wing in the 1970s, granting an easement to the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission.

Mr. and Mrs. John J. Donovan built a second western addition in 1989.They also purchased three and one-half acres of pasture at the rear of the property in 1991 and granted a protective easement to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The Ephraim Schooley House is open through the courtesy of its current owners, the Manch family.

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