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The law office building was built between 1851 and 1856.<ref name="woodson1"/> It was purchased by lawyer John W. Woodson in 1856 and he owned it until his death in 1864.<ref name="gutek299"> Gutek, p. 299 </ref> John W. Woodson was no longer living at the time when General Lee surrendered to General Grant. Woodson was born March 8, 1824 and died July 1, 1864. There is no confirmed evidence that it was necessarily always occupied by |
The law office building was built between 1851 and 1856.<ref name="woodson1"/> It was purchased by lawyer John W. Woodson in 1856 and he owned it until his death in 1864.<ref name="gutek299"> Gutek, p. 299 </ref> John W. Woodson was no longer living at the time when General Lee surrendered to General Grant. Woodson was born March 8, 1824 and died July 1, 1864. There is no confirmed evidence that it was necessarily always occupied by Woodson.<ref name="woodson1"/> He was an attorney that practiced law in the [[Old Appomattox Court House]] until his death in 1864.<ref name="gutek299"/> Woodson rented the building from Samuel McDearmon starting on January 1, 1854. He used the building to store his law books, legal documents, and a change of clothing. In 1856 he purchased the building from McDearmon, who was bankrupt by then.<ref>Marvel, ''A Place Called Appomattox'', pp. 38-39</ref> |
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The Woodson Law Office building is significant by virtue of its association with the site of General [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender to General [[Ulysses S. Grant]] at the end the [[American Civil War]]. It is also significant because it embodied the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction in the mid-nineteenth century in Virginia. The buildings and resources at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park constitute a holistic landscape typical of both a county government seat in Piedmont Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century and of a farming community in the state of Virginia.<ref name="woodson1"/> |
The Woodson Law Office building is significant by virtue of its association with the site of General [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender to General [[Ulysses S. Grant]] at the end the [[American Civil War]]. It is also significant because it embodied the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction in the mid-nineteenth century in Virginia. The buildings and resources at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park constitute a holistic landscape typical of both a county government seat in Piedmont Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century and of a farming community in the state of Virginia.<ref name="woodson1"/> |
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Revision as of 14:55, 27 January 2009
The Woodson Law Office is part of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park identified as structure number 9A. It was a law office building during the time of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant that took place on April 9, 1865.[1]
Historical significance
The law office building was built between 1851 and 1856.[1] It was purchased by lawyer John W. Woodson in 1856 and he owned it until his death in 1864.[2] John W. Woodson was no longer living at the time when General Lee surrendered to General Grant. Woodson was born March 8, 1824 and died July 1, 1864. There is no confirmed evidence that it was necessarily always occupied by Woodson.[1] He was an attorney that practiced law in the Old Appomattox Court House until his death in 1864.[2] Woodson rented the building from Samuel McDearmon starting on January 1, 1854. He used the building to store his law books, legal documents, and a change of clothing. In 1856 he purchased the building from McDearmon, who was bankrupt by then.[3]
The Woodson Law Office building is significant by virtue of its association with the site of General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant at the end the American Civil War. It is also significant because it embodied the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction in the mid-nineteenth century in Virginia. The buildings and resources at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park constitute a holistic landscape typical of both a county government seat in Piedmont Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century and of a farming community in the state of Virginia.[1]
Description
The Woodson Law Office is a beige frame building. It is a typical Virginia's small town lawyer's office of the mid-nineteenth century. It contains a secretary desk, a writing desk, a safe, a cabinet of law books, and a large portrait of George Washington among other items associated with a lawyer's office of the nineteenth century.[2]
The Woodson Law Office is a single story structure that is twelve and a half feet wide by fourteen and a half feet deep. Its construction is post and beam on brick piers with a standing seam gable roof. It was moved from its original location to be connected to north side of the Plunkett-Meeks store before 1874. It presently shows the relationship as it was to the Plunkett-Meeks Store and village scene at the time of surrender of General Lee to General Grant. The National Park Service restored the building in 1959 and in 1985. It was documented 6-26-1989 in the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
Interior
Footnotes
Sources
- Gutek, Patricia, Plantations and Outdoor Museums in America's Historic South, University of South Carolina Press, 1996, ISBN 1-5700307-1-5
- Marvel, William, A Place Called Appomattox, UNC Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8078256-8-9
- Marvel, William, Lee's Last Retreat, UNC Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8078570-3-3