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If the old building could speak it would tell tales of local business deals completed over cider and ale; of weary families taking a short rest before the next leg of their journey west; and of the rowdy trappers who brought their furs in to trade at the end of the rugged mountain winter.
Thanks to the efforts of Miss Ruby Jenkins and those who have helped and encouraged her, the old tavern can speak in its own way to all those who are interested in everyday life in Rappahannock County as it was lived hundreds of years ago or just a few weeks ago. The building was reborn as the Washington Museum in 1975.
“I had collected so many things,” Miss Jenkins said. ‘‘There just was no more room for any more Rappahannock mementos in the house. And this building was vacant—had been for years. So one day I said 1 was going to open up the old kitchen and furnish it with the things I'd collected. 1 guess folks must have thought I was crazy, but it was something I'd always wanted to do.”
Unlike the grandiose museums of larger cities, the Washington Museum preserves the simple, homey items of country and small town life as well as commemorating the great moments in county history. Here, you can find out, for example, that the weather on November 6 of 1901 was clear and warm; that the Frederick to Winchester bus line
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