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“Meetings were held here about the forming of the county and where the county seat was going to be. Court was even held here at times,” reported Mrs. Walker’s daughter, Fran Eldred. "Annie Coxe apparently had her fingers in every pie in captivity!”
Upstairs in the building are several smaller, private rooms which were rented to lady travelers and to more affluent gentlemen and a large common room where lodgers rented space—space on a bed often shared with another weary soul and even space on the floor. The menu served at the ordinary was whatever Annie Coxe had prepared that night for her family. When Mrs. Coxe died in 1850, the ordinary and its tavern were sold to settle her estate and purchased by Amos and Phoebe Dear. “Then when she died in 1900, it came into the Thornton family and we’ve been here ever since,” Mrs. Walker reported.
Buay Corner
The street corner in the center of town was a hub of activity when Edna's father, John Edward Thornton, owned Washington House. He built a garage across the street, the, beginning of the structure that now houses The Inn at Little Washington.
“Initially, it was going to be just a garage," Mrs. Walker recalled. But his wife objected so to the partying, dancing and card playing going on in the old ordinary that Thornton added a second level.
Story has it that Blanche Thornton hated the carryings on so much that when she caught a group of her husband’s friends playing cards in one of her back rooms, she went after them with a kettle of hot water and they all had to jump out of the upstairs window to escape.
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