Faires / Coltharp Cabin
Faires / Coltharp Cabin
This cabin was originally built by Jesse Faires in about 1814 about three miles from this location. Jesse's parents, Alexander and Jennet Faires, traveled here on horseback on the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road or Nation Ford Road from Pennsylvania in 1776.
Jesse's son, John,marched off to the Civil War from this cabin and died in Virginia, leaving his wife Esther Jane. After the war, Jane married a neighbor, Josiah Coltharp, who had walked the Nation Ford Road home from the Confederate surrender at Appomatox.
The cabin was moved to this spot in 1994. At the time it had four rooms. You can still see one original downstairs room, the upstairs loft and staircase next to the chimney. From the front door, you can see Nation Ford Road a few hundred feet away.
Submitted by Linda Nutman