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from Culpeper, and it was partially because of the presense of Mrs. Coxe’s Ordinary and other inns and restaurants in the town that Washington was picked over Woodville as the county seat.
“They held court here before the courthouse was built,” Mr. Eldred said. “The bell on the upstairs porch was used to call the justices.” It was also used to call people to meals when they were ready and to call servants to bring the horses around “from the stables out back,” they said.
They have some evidence that the building was used as an inn or ordinary before Mrs. Coxe’s time, that George Washington not only danced in the ballroom, created when the tables and chairs in the dining room were pushed back, but also spent the night there.
Following Mrs. Coxe’s death the property was purchased by Amos Dear whose son Col. Charles Dear rode with Mosby’s rangers. He continued to operate it an an inn.
Mrs. Eldred’s grandfather J.E. Thomton purchased the property in 1900 and he and his wife ran it. It was during his tenure that the hotel became known as “Washington House” but it was also known as “Thornton’s Hotel,” Mrs. Eldred said. Following her grandfather’s death, his widow and daughter, Mrs. Eldred’s mother Edna Walker, ran the hotel until 19S0, when Mrs. Walker closed it.
Mrs. Eldred said that growing up in a hotel is “the reason I’ll never do a B and
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