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that was tne oesi water. There was a store and a swinging bridge across the river at Laurel Mills, according to Mrs. Campbell. “Could carriages cross the bridge? Oh no, it was only for walking! You had to ford the river in a carriage.” “Then my grandmother became very ill and my mother had to move back to town to take care of her. My father commuted then. He went by horse and stayed the week at Laurel Mills and boarded and then returned to Washington for the weekend,” Mrs. Campbell recalled. As a young girl, she remembers playing a lot of croquet for recreation and amusement. "Everybody had a croquet set and we had horses and we walked around town.”
In those days, Washington was a thriving commercial hub. ‘‘There were three stores. Mr. Stuart had a store where Mr. Jenkins has his auction house now. And in the basement of that house was the best restaurant! They were colored folk but they only served white people. What food! The circuit court used to meet every month or maybe it was quarterly and they would feed them...My, it was wonderful to see the colored waiters all dressed in white, serving those dinners.”
Mrs. Campbell went to the old “Rabbit Gum" school, named after a two-room contrivance used to catch rabbits. The school had two teachers “and they taught the ABCs up to Latin...We enjoyed school,” Mrs.
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