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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. War Time Bar Room (Site).

  2. LOCATION:

    3. North side Main Street, Dayton, Virginia.

  3. DATE:

    4. 1835-40.

  4. OWNERS:

    5. The United Brethren Church.

  5. DESCRIPTION:

    6. The present united Brethren Church now stands on the old Bar Room building location.

  6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    7. The Bar room was quite a popular place—the only Bar Room ever in Dayton—during and after the War Between the States but was finally outlawed by the good citizens of Dayton. *

  7. ART:
  8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant: Jonathan Burtner, old resident.

Personal Research.

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 12, 1937 W.A. Byerly

Harrisonburg, VA

*Several sentences are not included from the original due to offensive language.