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Extracted from Steven Wood submission
FLAT CREEK:
Built in 1796 as a one room 20’ x 20’ log cabin by William Watts a judge, and added on to by the Saunders family. Fleming Saunders married Watts’ daughter. The house was added onto in 1825 and later around 1900 making it the “T” shaped mansion you see in the 1946 and 1980 photos. Capt. Fleming Saunders who lived at the home served under Gen Early in the “Battle of Lynchburg”. Later, Dr. James Sinkler Irvine lived there after marrying a daughter of the Saunders. He had an office in the small white house beside Miles Brother’s Store in Evington Village. As he grew older his office was in the slave cabin on the Flat Creek Property. He died in 1945. That was the last time the house was lived in. It was vacant and grew into a state of disrepair before burning to the ground May 1, 1981. A second fire in 1983 took the kitchens and barn on the property. The family cemetery is on the back of the property.
RICOHOC:
Built in 1871 Ricohoc was the home of the late Virginia Senator William Irvine. He was also a farmer and ran a mine on the property. I heard that the name Ricohoc may have came from the book Ivanhoe a favorite of William’s. The house had beautiful stained glass windows on the second floor hall. During the Kennedy years Irvine built a bomb shelter not far from the house in the hillside. It had a huge steel safe in the back when I visited in 1996.
CARYSWOOD:
Built before the civil war Caryswood was the home of Maj. Robert Chancellor Saunders and Carrietta Davies. There is a cemetery on the property of Saunder’s children. Also, the property contains a rock garden and garden areas where Mrs. Saunders used to have Tea Parties. The Mason family has taken great strides in preserving this last remainder of Saunders’ homes in Evington.
DR. HADEN HOUSE: “The Dentist”
This house was built in the late 1800’s and was the home of Dr. Joel Haden a dentist. Marvin Phillips told me when he was a boy he rode a mule over the mountain from his home on the farm to the dentist and got his tooth pulled for 25cents. The house has been vacant for decades. There are several foundations near the house of other buildings including the office.
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