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Nancy Britton, lived at the top of the mountain at The Hawsberry Inn, combination tavern, inn, post office, and stagecoach stop. The Hawsberry, which Nancy apparently inherited from her father, George, was a fascinating building with a 60 ft. veranda and a tunnel-like entrance underneath to allow coach passengers to disembark out of the weather.
The building endured until demolished to make way for Skyline Drive in the 1930s.
A son, William Randolph Barbee, was bom in 1818 up there on the mountain, probably at Hawsberry.
William married Mary Jane McKay, daughter of his father’s road partner and studied law. Perhaps from proximity to the turnpike, some of the sledge-cracking legacy seems to have rubbed off. From an early age William exhibited an artistic streak and was said to
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