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ton, and Porter Street bears his name.
The wing was built as a separate house with its own porches, entrance way, fieldstone chimneys and winding staircase, and at that time shared no common doorways with the original structure.
In 1838, Mr. Porter sold the property to Daniel Mason, who owned it until 1871.
During the Civil War, it was used as a field hospital by the Union army, and those who died there were buried under the big walnut tree in the back yard. Among the stones in the retaining wall behind the house is one carved with initials, probably a headstone from the grave of a soldier. For years the home’s attic sported graffiti on the walls and bloodstained floorboards which bespoke its Civil War service.
Judge James French Strother,
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