• . . · VTLS-Web Gateway: Bibid Lookup · y s /ff HISTORIC SITE FILE: MU N'l> Page 1. ofz P RIN CE WILUAM PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM RELIC/Bull Run Reg Lib Mahassas, VA 00 1HE lJBRARY OF VIRGINIA Search Results Virginia Historical Inventory: CATALOG CARD MULTIMEDIA • RepQrt HQme Page RECORD NO. VHIR/22/0714 REPORTER Morton, Susan R. TITLE Mundy house site : survey report, 1937 Apr. 15 I research made by Susan R. Morton. 4 leaves. NOTE Map location number: PW146 NOTE Additional report with same map location number: VHIR/22/0707 NOTE Class: Home NOTE Building date: Post 1750 NOTE Building plan: Square NOTE Number of stories: 2 NOTE Building material: Brick NOTE Location: .2 mile from Dunfries on Rt. 1. NOTE Primary owners: Willoughby Tebbs, George Merchant, King family, C.F. Brown The house was destroyed by a gale a few years before the report date, but the stone from the cellar was used to build another house on the same site. NOTE Willoughby Tebbs was shot by Henry Lee here. During the.Civil War, the house was a hospital and campground. Damaged during the war, the house was repaired and used for a school. A hidden wine cellar was discovered during the salvage operation. NOTE Includes description of the house, interior and site. NOTE Includes abstracts of title. OTHER Also available on microfilm. FORMAT This write-up is a part of the Virginia W.P.A. Historical Inventory Project ISSUING BODY sponsored by the Virginia Conservation Commission under the direction of its Division of History. REPRODUCTION Computer file. Richmond, Va. : Library of Virginia, 1998. 4 image files. SUBJECT Tebbs. Willowzhbv. SUBJECT DwellinQ:s -- Virninia -- Prince William Countv. SUBJECT Brick houses -- Vinzinia -- Prince William Countv. SUBJECT Schools -- VirQ:inia -- Prince William Countv SUBJECT Wine cellars -- Vinrinia -- Prince William Countv. SUBJECT Architech.re -- 18th cenhuv -- Vinzinia -- Prince William r.ountv SUBJECT Prince William County (Va.) -- Social life and customs. SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- http://eagle.vsla.edu/cgi-bin/vhi.gateway?bib=0007-48160&conf=Ol0000 I I I 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 ++1 ... 6/26/2003
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· (e6~S' y J,ous~ s /ff ~ HISTORIC SITE FILE: MU N'l> Page 1. ofz PRINCE WILUAM PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM RELIC/Bull Run Reg Lib Mahassas, VA
001HE lJBRARY OF VIRGINIA Search Results
Virginia Historical Inventory: CATALOG CARD
MULTIMEDIA • RepQrt HQme Page
RECORD NO. VHIR/22/0714
REPORTER Morton, Susan R.
TITLE Mundy house site : survey report, 1937 Apr. 15 I research made by Susan R. Morton.
4 leaves.
NOTE Map location number: PW146
NOTE Additional report with same map location number: VHIR/22/0707
NOTE Class: Home
NOTE Building date: Post 1750
NOTE Building plan: Square
NOTE Number of stories: 2
NOTE Building material: Brick
NOTE Location: .2 mile from Dunfries on Rt. 1. NOTE Primary owners: Willoughby Tebbs, George Merchant, King family, C.F . Brown
The house was destroyed by a gale a few years before the report date, but the stone from the cellar was used to build another house on the same site.
NOTE Willoughby Tebbs was shot by Henry Lee here. During the .Civil War, the house was a hospital and campground. Damaged during the war, the house was repaired and used for a school. A hidden wine cellar was discovered during the salvage operation.
NOTE Includes description of the house, interior and site.
NOTE Includes abstracts of title. OTHER
Also available on microfilm. FORMAT This write-up is a part of the Virginia W.P.A. Historical Inventory Project
ISSUING BODY sponsored by the Virginia Conservation Commission under the direction of its Division of History.
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1':t' 1i mio11i'ble ... to :fia4 •-; .e.arly ~eoord&: of 'oner- . 9hi.p, al~oup .. thi1 wae ·the .ho•e. ot 'lilloupby ~ebb1, ud l . ·thlak· that 1 t · wai buJ.l t by hill • . It wa• left to
· hi ii wliow, . B~t·•J'. Tebba·, .aad 1he eyideatlJ' mpold 1 t to •erqhaat~ 'b~t I -haye· aot bee~ able · to t~id : the record ·
" ot: 1 t, $Id 1uppo1e th~.t '.1 t ~· -&110•1 the mi••ia& ·reoords of Priaoe .'11111•. . _. · · ..
. Oeo~~e ~d Saran · K~rohaat aolci ·it ia 1849 -. t~ Phtaeu · · · irwa47, Deed Book ·•'• foli~ ?8, aad ia 18&3, Deed liook · · &l,' ,-folio· 4e,. 11- t)le ~~oord of additioa&l, l_~d oa .· · .
.G.rQ'1oa 11 B~ll· . Later, tbi• .U,l came iato po1se1sioa . ot ·~e . nq1, ·. aad ~e.iaiaed i• : that family _ for yeara, .. but wa1 eold to Jrr • . O. 1. Bron ·of ~~tioo, . Virciaia, .· · la 1_93'5 by the lli& . ea.tate. · ·
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: tile: olcl h~u~e ~a:. ia yery baif' r•~air for 1ome ·years·, ud tiaally, i• .·a heayY 1ale~· t&ll ia, ·bµt it waa 1ti11 i,.taadiq"a t~w ·yeara". aco, · aad .1 r•ma'ber it Tery we11·, l»ut ._ ouaot reoall .-.the detai11· well eaoup ·to till ia the arohl teotural •h.~et· • . ·It waa •quare, 'brio_:t, .of nea"'.' ~Ill -. lto•4• •1th white" 1toae . triil. !here •ere .six rooms
. oa . the · fl~•t floo:~•,' three oa. ~e .- .-.eoo•d, .ud fiye 1• · ~- ba• .. ••t• 0r1&1•all7, ·t)lere· had beea more rooaa
. .. u4 •uoh' te1tl•• oooaaloa• 1 t ooulcl be made iato '. oae ._. · lu1• ro• • . Dl11 pueillq waa yery .'beautiful· ud wu~ ·" 1014 .to . 1.oae.oae 1• .. •••.- ~or.Jr.· tor· ~· thou1alld, dollarl. The . · .,•rtok ·wu lik•.•lit 1014;: •cl· waa takeli .. to .Jlre4erioka•.~•·· · fta•r.e .. ~ere . two · 40.\&bl~ _:ohilla~J• ~.•t. each ead, ud · , .......... ~ ......... _ •- · ---~ - --- . . ..
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. !Jie ato•e .from the. ·basemeat has beea used 'to . build· a •o.at . attrao·t1ve house . o.ia the aame .· a~te · by the-; prese•t oner. ·
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.. ni~re . ue •oae o:f the· old treea left·; 'al.:tho\iih uati{ a .. · . . few yea~· aco th~re were' 1ome very lar1e locµats staadiac · · · that had ·beea there tor ·maay years • . There was · a . terraced . · ca:de• 1• fro•t that ha• .beeii relnlil t .by· the ·preseat · . . oner, »aok ·of ·. the house ~e the ·lovely ·wood• ·of 9:I"a.J8o•
·. Bill. At· t~e aouthwe1t ooraer of the ·houae 11.a lar1e " we11 · that · 1raa probably bull t by . the orici•al oner1, this·
6~· HISTORICAL SlGNIFIOAll<m: . . . Tli';i.a . ia oae of the oid house·s ·that was ·the soeae of so ·. · . ·ma:ay stir~i•i ac.ea·ea i• the past~ ad·· so maay pro-.Ue•t
p:e.ople, who h._.VP. made our heritqe ··:Ot hl1tor;y, haTe pal&• ed throll&b i ta door•, that iii api te· of ~he fact that · · ·· . · · the:re are fe°" peyaioal re:Qaai•• ·of : the . 01·4 home; .i:t• a~- .' . moaphe;re ia t'elt. ·Thie .waa the aoe•e : of muoh of. Dmatriea'.· 1ayety aad hoapitality, The b,µ1s· he~d here were -•oted .: for their beauty, aad ·the ·be1ie1 ·rrom the aeilhboriac plaatatioas aad ·tona. oame ·here i• · ooaohe1 aad · sedaa Qha:lr1. 11'f~s llaud ""ell .of H~ymark·et; . Yirci•:i~, re1(eiabe~~
· · heariq her srudmother tell of ·1oi•c· . there dressed ta a ·. · r'ioh purple b~ocade, that. had ju1t· come J.• trom ·oae .o.f · ·
the .ship• from Loadoa~ aad was hastily made up tor the · · ·. oooaaio•, . o•ly to ·h·er di_~· to fiad there .were ao flow
er• available that· would ble•d .well .with her· royal 10 .... · · So.meoa~ · au11ested bwao~es of small· purpl.e . crapes · :that
. ·. · ~ere i~OWial in· a DetU'UJ '1ardea; · and Ol~stera Of these in per powdered hair, made a striki•I headdress. .
. Yaehi•sto• ia said t~ have take• tea here· manY times oa hie · frequ~at 'tisi ts to Dumf'·rie1, ad muy other •otables ...
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It w&:& here tha:t· lfi.lloUchby i-e~ba : wae ·shot by Ooloael .Beary Lee, a.ad duria1 the War. -::ee~weea the S~~tea ·· the
: h<?use . wa• . uaed aa a ho•pi tal, mo1tly ·by a re11.meat . of .. Texas soldiers. · The U•io• Army was ·Qamped baok of .here all oae wiJiter • . ·After · ~e war, the . house,. badly damaeed,· was -repaired a.ad used as a·sohoo1. · . .
· A :!ew. mo•~a qo·, worlmle .. exoav~ti:ac for ·PlUmbia1 to be iaat.alled i• the •ew. ~d:y Bo:Li•e", (that is bull t di .. ·· reotly over the .old oellarJ~were met with a 1ey1er· ot .
.. · ~1~e, their pio~• _havi•I .atl'uok .a hidde• .. •i.•e . cellar, !4e moat of the bottle• were · brQki•, ·but . a few · were .eaTed, ·all himd~blo~ 11aaa with o~oo](ed •eok•, tha1;.',.eTide•tly dated.: baok to ·Revolut'io•ary . day~ ·~ · : . . ·. · · . .. .. , · · .. ' . . . . ·. . .
