Native Americans here. Rappahannock is a Native American word for “rising and falling waters”; thus, the name of the river. It follows that early residents in 1682 chose to name their village Tappahannock meaning “place of rising and falling waters.”


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Situated along historic streets, four of the six homes will be open for the first time. This a walking tour in the town of five of the homes and a drive of only four miles out of town to Mahockney, a 17th


century planter’s home. To add a special


dimension to this tour, The River Country Artists will stage an exhibit and sale at the corner of Prince Street and Water Lane.


MAHOCKNEY, 5328 Mt. Landing Road


Visitors may like to visit Mahockney, just out of town, at the beginning or end of the tour of homes in the historic heart of the town. It is an example of an early planter’s home. Built by Robert Tomlin on land patented in 1663, it is located at the headwaters of Mount Landing Creek. It takes its name from a Native American word “mahawg” meaning gourd. Early settlers grew gourds for their domestic use such as serving as a ladle beside oaken buckets at the well. Tomlin traded with Native Americans and hid 70 of them with their corn during the Bacon’s Rebellion. Massive chimneys at each end of the house are an important feature of the structure as is the story-and-a- half frame section.


Built in 1820 the two-story addition features heart pine


flooring, Cross and Bible doors and a paneled stairway. At this time William Latane enclosed the original frame house with Flemish bond brick on the east and west and with three-to-one common brick on the north. In the 20th


century the owners


placed an addition on the rear. There are seven fireplaces. On the outside several dependencies, perennial gardens, shrubs, trees and a stocked pond grace the stately grounds. Open for the first time by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Shepherd.


he tiny port town of Tappahannock, established in 1682, was one of the early ports along the eastern seacoast of Colonial Virginia. Captain John Smith met


McCall-Brockenbrough Photo by David Broad


By contributing writers Ruby Lee Norris and Marty Taylor Mahockney The House & Home Magazine 11


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