Barclay home and tavern snapshot photos, 1930/1986

Containers:

Box 6, Folder 20

Scope and content:

The photos in this folder are as follows: Two snapshot photos of the Barclay Tavern, across the road from the Red Mill on Cedar Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia, circa 1930. Two snapshot photos of "Beaumont," the A. T. Barclay home on Lee Avenue in Lexington, Virginia, circa 1930. One color photo of "Beaumont," the A. T. Barclay home on Lee Avenue in Lexington, Virginia, taken by David Metzger in 1986.

Biographical / historical:

The Barclay Tavern, is known as one of the oldest buildings in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The circa 1790 two story, brick dwelling is attributed to early land owner Clay Barclay and served as a tavern. The Red Mill was a grist mill, which is located across the road from the dwelling. It was built circa 1880 and is located on Cedar Creek on the former Valley Road before it was re-routed in the mid 1930s to go through the Natural Bridge resort. This timber framed mill served local farmers by grinding grain using water power from Cedar Creek. An associated timber frame barn built around 1900 still sits nearby.

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