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Hampden Hall, built for Mike Massie’s great-grandfather, was the product of those flush times, as were two other mansions in the county that can’t be seen from public roads. All were built before World War I. From the back, they looked like the huge farmhouses that they were, but their fronts boasted two-story white columns and balconies, j

In the Depression years, the Hawkins buildings were decidedly pragmatic. After a tornado leveled much of Woodville in 1929, Charlie Hawkins built the Woodville Baptist Church, the houses on each side of the church, the brick house facing the church, and the old schoolhouse (now home to Raymond Johnson) on a hill to the west of the church.

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