Haymarket, VA Thomas Jefferson is on his second day of travel between Washington City and Monticello. He has dinner and lodges at the Red House ordinary run by Margaret Hereford.
Barboursville, WV Tollhouse
By Carol M. Highsmith. Provided by U.S. Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015631797/.
The Barboursville Tollhouse, refurbished in 1950 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, is indicative of the Red House ordinary used by Thomas Jefferson on this day. An ordinary was typically a single house providing limited service, whereas a tavern was larger and provided more services.[1]“The Red House Tavern,” Historic Haymarket, www.townofhaymarket.org/museum/page/red-house-tavern accessed 25 May 2022.
Mar 8. Centerville breakft. &c. 1.5. Red house Mrs. Hereford’s dinner, lodgg. &c. 5.09.[2]“Memorandum Books, 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/02-02-02-0013 accessed 15 May 2022. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas … Continue reading
Notes
↑1 | “The Red House Tavern,” Historic Haymarket, www.townofhaymarket.org/museum/page/red-house-tavern accessed 25 May 2022. |
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↑2 | “Memorandum Books, 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/02-02-02-0013 accessed 15 May 2022. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series, Jefferson’s Memorandum Books, vol. 2, ed. James A Bear, Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. 1089–1117.] |
↑3 | Ibid. |