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| Photo by Down Home: Dacusville Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow |
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| Photo by: Down Home: Dacusville Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow |
Down Home: Dacusville Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Irvin Henry Philpot was interviewed and had this to say, After the Civil War, my grandparents, Irvin Hutchison and Jennie McBee Alexander Philpot, bought their property. It seems that grandmother inherited $5,000 in gold, and they used that money to purchase the land and house. The basic part of the house was joined with wooden pegs, and no nails were used. There was a chimney on each end of the house and fireplaces were located both upstairs and downstairs. The original house had two large rooms on both levels, and there was a spacious hall to separate them. The Shed Room across the back room was used for the dining room and kitchen. A Company Room was just back of the living room and had a private entrance. This room was used quite a lot by the preachers, and in this case, the Methodist Circuit riders. While making the needed renovations, a wide front porch with columns changed the ' L' that included so much needed space. Highway 186 used to come in the front of the house and was located more toward Ronny Hall's house. When the road was relocated in its present place, that is when the Philpot family made the adjustments to the house.
Irvin Henry Philpot stated in Down Home: Dacusville Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow that his sister Sallie Bet, married Mr Charlie Hill and kept the house in the Philpot family. Many in the community remember Charlie Hill as the owner of the General Store, Sunoco is currently in it's location on Hwy 186.
Comments about Charlie Hill,
You Know You Are From Dacusville When...
John E. Clark
I remember when we were
in class and a herd of cows came running down the hill and Charlie Hill stuck
his head thru the window and ask us boys to help: so out the window we all
go. The teacher Mr. Knolls was having a fit, he later sent us all ...
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Sandy McClain
you could get a 5 cent
refund on glass coke bottles and you rode up and down the roads on your bike,
looking in the ditches, hoping to find five bottles so you could take them
over to Charlie Hill's store and get a whole brown paper sack of candy.
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Karen Reid
You went down to Charlie Hills store through the pine trees from
the
hole in the fence. Not that I did it, but I remember people doing
this.
Roger Eades
When you remember the
only stores in town being Charlie Hill's, Lynches and N.B. Williams. You could
go to Charlie’s with a quarter and get a paper bag slap full of candy--and a
drink!!! You 'sneak' down to Charlie Hill's pond to go fishing…it was not visible
as it is now… it made it more fun.
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Tim McConnell
When Charlie Hill’s
Store was the gathering place for local drag racing!
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It's hard to watch as changes take place around us in our Dacusville Community, we want to hold on to our past.
The only way we can continue the past, is to bring it to the present. The bible tells us in Joel 1:3, "Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation."
If you would like to bring the past to the present and you have stories you would like to share about the House, Philpots, Charlie Hill, or the General Store please feel free to share below in the comments.
(Photos of demolished house taken by Jim Shelton)
