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The Hawsberry Inn
It had a different name, but The Hawsberry Inn, combination tavern, inn, post office, and stagecoach stop could easily have been called Panorama Number 1. George Britton built the Hawsberry in the mid-1700s. Its memory serves as homage to a series of wagon stands, inns, and private homes that accommodated travelers for two hundred years beginning in the early 1700s.
Today, an overnight stay or a meal at the top of the mountain is optional. Prior to the advent of the internal combustion engine, the early facilities were there of necessity. Travel was a considerable undertaking and the ‘gap’ was about a one-day trip from New Market or Culpeper so accommodations and food were a must. So were corrals, blacksmiths, hay, water, and all the other servicing needs for horses - walking through Memphis may have been an option, but doing so over the Blue Ridge was not.
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