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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON
Rappahannock New* Contributing Writer
The Rappahannock Library meeting room was filled to capacity last Friday when Scott McBride, a Sperryville carpenter, stood up to lecture on the legacy left by three generations of Hawkins builders.
Instead of speaking immediately, however, he flicked on a slide projector to show examples of buildings in J Rappahannock County raised by one or another Hawkins.
Soon the audience began to murmur over what they were seeing. Everyone recognized building after building: Hampden Hall, the whitecolumned mansion that looks as if it were made from stone (it’s manmade blocks) on the south side of Route 211 at Massie’s Comer, the small brick tax office in little Washington; Spring Mountain School; Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church in Sperryville; the Sperryville Antique Market.
There were at least two dozen examples in the slides-including old schools, farmhouses, churches and a planing mill—and Mr. McBride said ' there were many more throughout the county.
“What’s so special about this family of builders was their continuity and integrity through many decades,” Mr. McBride said in an interview after his talk. “The changes in architecture, in technology and in the local economy were reflected in this family. They were like a microcosm. ”
When the market for cattle and apples was booming in the early 1900s and local farmers had plenty of money to spare, they hired the Hawkins crew to put up the mansions of their dreams, said Mr. McBride.
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