Story behind the background

 I chose to use a photograph for my background because of it's historical significance and ties to my own family history. 

The house in the background was known as Bachelor's Hall and is where my dad lived when he was a young child and was owned by a feller with the last name Colegrove. 

The building, which was located on main street, across from the current post office, was once a hotel owned and operated by James G. Boyd, 1842-1847.

A military ball was held at the hotel in 1845.

I know the old building was still standing sometime in the early 1960s because I have pictures of my mother inside the house holding one of my older sisters. 

 The building burned to the ground sometime in the mid 1960s.

One of the ladies in the photograph is Lizzie Brown, her father, Charles A. Brown, owned Browns Mule Plug Tobacco Factory, which later became Brown's Department Store