윔스-보츠 박물관

Weems–Botts Museum
윔즈-봇츠 하우스
Weems-Botts House (Dumfries, Virginia) 001.jpg
윔스보츠 하우스
Weems–Botts Museum is located in Northern Virginia
Weems–Botts Museum
Weems–Botts Museum is located in Virginia
Weems–Botts Museum
Weems–Botts Museum is located in the United States
Weems–Botts Museum
위치듀크 스트리트와 캐머런 스트리트의 코너
덤프리스 (버지니아 주)
좌표38°34°07°N 77°19′49″w/38.56861°N 77.33028°W/ 38.56861; -77.33028좌표: 38°34°07°N 77°19°49°W / 38.56861°N 77.33028°W / 38.56861; -77.33028
지역1.6에이커(0.65ha)
NRHP 참조75002029[1]
VLR No.212-0010
중요한 날짜
NRHP에 추가됨1975년 5월 12일
지정 VLR1975년[2] 4월 15일

윔즈-보츠 하우스 박물관은 미국 버지니아주 덤프리에 있는 작은 역사 박물관입니다.박물관은 Duke Street와 Cameron Street의 모퉁이에 있는 랜드마크인 Weems-Botts House와 Cameron Street 3944에 위치한 Lee Lansing Research Library and Archive가 있는 Weems-Botts Museum Annex를 포함합니다.두 건물 모두 상인공원에 위치하고 있습니다.이 공원의 밴드 스탠드는 프린스 윌리엄 카운티에서 가장 존경받는 시민 중 한 명이자 버지니아 최초의 상원의원 [3]중 한 명인 윌리엄 그레이슨을 기념합니다.박물관 투어는 버지니아 주에서 가장 오래된 전세 마을인 덤프리스와 메이슨 로크 "파슨" 윔스와 변호사 벤자민 보츠를 포함한 [4]이 집과 관련된 사람들의 역사를 보여준다.

이 박물관은 1975년에 200년에 걸친 미국 복원 프로젝트의 일환으로 복원되었다.박물관은 덤프리스 타운이 소유하고 있으며 비영리 단체인 Historic Dumfries Virginia, Inc.가 운영하고 있다.

역사적 의의

파슨 윔스 (1759년-1825년)는 조지 워싱턴의 첫 전기 작가이자 벚나무 이야기의 창시자였다.

그 집은 원래 콴티코 교회의 전리품이었다.

1939년 그린 그랜트 우드의 그림 '파슨 윔스 우화'는 윔스와 그의 유명한 '벚나무' 이야기를 묘사했다.

The house was purchased by Parson Weems, a native Marylander, in 1798. Weems was a clergyman who became an author and purveyor of books, which he would sell from the back of his jersey wagon. While traveling through Dumfries during one of his book-selling tours, Weems met Fanny Ewell, the daughter of Colonel Jesse Ewell, a wealthy tobacco planter with a warehouse business in Dumfries. They married in 1795.

During his ownership of the house, Weems wrote an 80-page booklet that would influence the thoughts of Americans to this day entitled A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington. Weems published the first biography on George Washington and was the creator of the famous cherry tree story ("I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet"). Weems also created the fable that Washington threw a silver dollar more than 300 feet across the Rappahannock River. He also wrote biographies on Benjamin Franklin, Francis Marion, and William Penn.[5] Sometime after the death of his father-in-law in 1805, Weems moved his family into the Ewell family estate, Bel Air.

Weems sold his shop in 1802 to an attorney named Benjamin Botts. Benjamin Botts used the building as his law office. Best remembered as one of the defense attorneys who successfully defended Aaron Burr during his infamous treason and conspiracy trial, Botts was a Dumfries native and rising star in Virginia's legal community. Botts was killed in the Richmond Theater fire on December 26, 1811.

Benjamin Botts (1776-1811) was an attorney best known for representing Aaron Burr during his infamous treason and conspiracy trial.

After passing through multiple ownerships, the Merchant family owned and lived in the house from 1869 to 1968. The property was restored and opened as a museum in 1975.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ Prince William County Historical Commission. Wieder, Laurie C.: Editor. Prince William: A Past to Preserve. Prince William County Historical Commission: Publisher. 1998. Ref. p. 31.
  4. ^ Historic Dumfries Virginia, Inc.
  5. ^ 테일러, L.B. 주니어버지니아 유령 제7권프로그레스 인쇄, 주식회사, 미국, 2002년

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