manassas stone house: Manassas Stone House - Wavy Glass - 05/28/10 11:42 PM
In Northern Virginia there are many places you can go to see old houses and buildings.  One defining feature common to all is that some windows still contain original glass.
How can you tell?  It is wavy or otherwise disturbed.  Walking through Mount Vernon and Monticello, and other such historical sites, when looking out the windows, it is easy to see which panes are original and which have been replaced over the years.
Glass is made by melting sand (silica) and mixing it with some form of flux, like soda ash, to reduce the melting temperature.  Then through an "annealing" process … (9 comments)

manassas stone house: Manassas Stone House - The Red Flag - 05/22/10 11:51 PM

Driving by the Stone House on the Manassas Battlefield I noticed the red flag was hoisted!  It is not out there all the time and when it is one must take advantage.
That means that the house is open to the public.  I am the public, so I went inside.
This house was occupied as a private residence as recently as the 1930's.  There were other outbuildings around it, many rented out as local side-of-the-road motel rooms.  The Stone House had a big front porch (since removed when restored) and was not very well kept.
The restoration made the inside … (43 comments)

manassas stone house: Manassas Stone House, Then And Now - 04/02/10 11:51 PM
Nearly every day on my way home I pass through the Manassas Battlefield Park.  I had two relatives fight in those battles.  One was a 13 year old drummer boy with romantic ideas who ran away from his home in Upper Marlboro Maryland to follow his elder brother into the war.  That is an interesting family story in itself.  The elder brother survived the war.  The drummer boy did not survive the Second Battle of Manassas and is buried somewhere on the battlefield.
A prominent memorial feature of both battles is the old Stone House.  It was located right in the … (11 comments)

 
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