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The Thirtieth annual Rappahannock House Tour and Dried Flower Sale will be held October 18th and 19th. Since 1956 this event, presented by the Churchwomen of Bromfield Parish, has been an increasingly popular highlight of the Fall season in the County. Headquarters will be the Parish Hall of Trinity Episcopal Church in historic Washington.
In addition to the hundreds of dried flower arrangements offered for sale that weekend, three homes will be open for viewing on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 'Block tickets are on sale for $5.00 and tickets for individual houses for $2.00. The block ticket includes tea which will be served both afternoons at the Siira house in Old Hollow. A box lunch will be available from the women of the Washington First Baptist Church on hoth days at the tour headquarters.
One of the houses to be shown will be Heritage House at Main and Jett Streets in Washington. This house, the home of James and Nancy Thomasson, saw its modest beginnings in 1837 as a 16 by 32 foot twostory frame structure built by Henry Johnson upon his marriage to Elizabeth Ann Grove. At that time it consisted of a living room and dining room on the main floor and two bedrooms above accessible by an outside stairway. Later in the 19th century it was expanded to the rear. The original slave kitchen/quarters, with windows facing west toward the mountains, is under the original portion. Next to this is a hand dug well, five feet in diameter, but which is no longer in use. Rafters and beams in the roof are original, pegged and bearing Roman numerals as a guide to assembly.
The small building to the left was originally the ice house, transformed earlier in this century to a garage and extended several times to accommodate the increasing size of cars
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