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Edited By T. REYNOLDS
“Most of the early large landowners here had indentured servants, and they also had slaves. These were the ones that had so much land: someone might have a stretch of land from here to the mountains.
“Most of these people were English-speaking people. The first homes that they built were very crude. Most were built out of logs cut down in the forest - and not with saws like today - but cut with an adz and a cross-cut saw.
“For instance, our home - the old part of the house that I live in - was built in 1749 and it seemed to be slipped down between the trees. They left trees all around it. Now this part of it was built as a rectory for the Episcopal Church.
"It was built there by a man named Strother, and called Strother’s Chapel, and the section of the home that I live in was four little rooms - all log - and the circuit rider preacher would come and stay so many months and go on to another section. But this was his headquarters. Before the chapel was built, the congregation worshipped outside, under the oaks. Oaks were traditionally the trees associated with religious services.”
The Dipper Oak
“At that time. Queen Anne presented Strother's Chapel with a silver dipper. It would be very valuable now, but no one knows where it is. It hung on an oak tree. The tree is dead but still standing. It’s called the Dipper Oak. I’ve tried so hard to get someone to take a picture of the oak before it falls. You can see it better when the leaves are off the trees.
"The other night when the wind was blowing, I thought, ‘Oh, the Dipper Oak's gone tonight.’ But it’s still there. "The chapel was torn down by the enemy, hauled several miles away and used as a shelter for their horses.”
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