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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. The "Joe" Dinkle Home.

  2. LOCATION:

    3. South side Main Street, end of Bridgewater, Virginia.

  3. DATE:

    4. About 1825.

  4. OWNERS:

    5. "Joe" Dinkle.

    Mrs. Lang.

  5. DESCRIPTION:

    6. In early days this house was an "early house". It was partly log but now is modernized and is stuccoed.

    See form 3686—attached.

  6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    7. The house is said to have been built by Joe Dinkle a descendant of the first Dinkle (or Tinkle) family in the country.

    It was owned and operated by a Mrs. Lang after the close of the War Between the States.

  7. ART:
  8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants: Mr. C.E. Richcreek, Bridgewater, Virginia.

Mr. John Furry, Bridgewater, Virginia.

W.A. Byerly, Bridgewater, Virginia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 17, 1937 W.A. Byerly

Bridgewater, VA