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Water Street
Virtual Walking Tour
Weaver's Cottage
This two-story stone and log house is the only one still
standing on Water Street. It exemplifies housing for less
affluent individuals in the early 19th century; many builders
continued to use log and stone as a cheaper alternative to
brick or frame construction. Its earliest known owner was
Elizabeth Gore (c.1772-c.1848), who in 1818 bought what was
probably a vacant lot. She sold the property in 1849 to a
weaver from Germany. In the mid-1850s William Robinson (born
c.1821), a free African-American, purchased the house; it
remained in his family for close to a century. Two additional
dwellings owned by African-American families stood to the
right of the Weaver's Cottage until the late 1800s. |
Moxley Hall
Lewis V. Shuey (1832-1911) erected this house in the 1860s
after returning from the California gold fields. He eventually
sold the farm to the Mock family, who named it Moxley Hall
and lived here for more than 40 years. The house has a center-passage
plan with interior end chimneys and a service wing to the
rear.
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