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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. William Dinkle Home.

  2. LOCATION:

    3. North side of Main Street, Bridgewater, Virginia.

  3. DATE:

    4. About 1800.

  4. OWNERS:

    5. Bill Dinkle, original owner and builder, then the Dinkle descendants, next F.C. Irvine, and then Dr. O.F. Foley, the present owner.

  5. DESCRIPTION:

    6. See form 3686—attached.

  6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    7. The Bill Dinkle home was one of the first brick houses built here and the owner was one of the first settlers who owned the land on which the present town of Bridgewater is built, and who helped to plot and lay off the town.

  7. ART:
  8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants: J.K. Deter and Charles E. Richcreek.

Court Records of Rockingham County, at Harrisonburg, VA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 9, 1937 W.A. Byerly

Bridgewater, VA