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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
“There’s life in this old town yet,” Councilman Ray Gooch said of two applications Town Council considered last Wednesday.
Frances and Charles Eldred had applied for a special use permit to operate Mrs. Coxe’s Tavern, a restaurant and gathering place in their house, and The Inn at Little Washington had applied for a special use permit to expand the hotel portion of their business by increasing the number of rooms for overnight guests from 10 to 12.
Mrs. Eldred said she wanted to “reopen what is probably the oldest and longest running commercial property.” She said there is evidence her house was used as an inn and tavern for 200 years from 1750 through 1950.
“During the 18th Century as today the tavern was a restaurant,” she said. “Travelers and locals came for a hearty meal and libation. They sat and smoked and had conversation. We will carry on that tradition, but there will be a non-smoking area.”
She said in the 18th century the tavern had to provide shelter and food for horses and space for carriages and coaches. The 10 off-street parking places will be located in.the area where the original stables were, she said.
Wendy Weinberg said, “1 know the patrons of the theatre would like to have a place to go after a performance.” She said Washington is like many English villages, “but any English village would have at least two pubs.”
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