Mitchell-Weeks House
Posted by: 
pixieslayer
N 38° 53.377 W 077° 25.231
18S E 290064 N 4307312
I've driven past this literally hundreds of times and never noticed this sign or the house. It's just off the eastbound service road on US 50.
Waymark Code: WMK7H
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/05/2006
Views: 33
Mitchell-Weeks House
This building is the reproduction of a typical "Potomac Valley Farmhouse" built at this location circa 1789 by Benjamin Mitchell. It was a one and a half story log house, with a sloping front roof extending over the porch, which in time became a community landmark. Ownership passed to James Wrenn, who married Mitchell's granddaughter, in 1835. Their eight unmarried daughters lived here through approximately 1840. After 1952, Charles and Edith Weeks and subsequent owners made many renovations and structural changes. The stone chimneys and the log siding on the front porch are materials from the original house.