At 5/21/04 02:10 AM Friday, you wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >This past week the Broylesville Inn was suspiciously burnt to the ground >with only the two chimneys remaining. It was over 200 years old and had >hosted three presidents (Jackson,Polk, and Harrison). It was an annual >tour for all of us that went to the East Tennessee Germanna Reunion and >although in disrepair was still an architectural wonder and would have >been a great candidate for restoration of one of the oldest buildings in >Tennessee with a long history as the stagecoach stop from Virginia to >Knoxville. The Inn was originally owned by Adam Broyles whose second wife >was the daughter of Samuel Doak, the founder of Washington College, the >first college in Tennessee. It is a shame that such a landmark was let to >decay and now destroyed. > >--- Jim Albin > >--- jealbin@earthlink.net **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** Jim called me on Friday and asked me to correct the above post. The three Presidents from Tennessee who stayed at the Broylesville Inn were Jackson, Johnson, and Polk. Some sources have said that the fact that these three Presidents actually stayed at the Inn is only conjecture; however, one has only to conduct a study of the road systems of that time period to see that it is almost certain that those notables did, indeed, spend the night there. The Broylesville Inn was on "The Old Stage Road", which ran from Abingdon, VA, to Knoxville, TN. In that time period, there were no "stop-overs" between those two towns except "Broylesville". So, if those Presidents had business anywhere between Washington, D.C. (Federal City), and the south (south of Nashville and west of the Carolinas), they would have almost certainly come down "The Old Stage Road". Given the speed of the stagecoaches at the time, a stopover would certainly have been necessary between Abingdon and Knoxville. Just for information, for the Germanna descendants of this area, the same "Old Stage Road" passed through what is now the Horse Creek area of Greene, County, and went right by the homes and farms of many of our BROYLES/WILHOIT relatives (and by the homes and farms of the families into which they married) in Greene County. In fact, the present road through that area STILL follows the Old Stage Road! It runs right in front of my uncle's (Glenn D. BROYLES') house on the original Jacob (Black Jake) BROYLES farm! Can't you see that old stage, pulled by 6 or 8 horses, bustling down that road, trying to get from Broylesville to Knoxville in one day? And, possibly carrying a President? Regards, SgtGeorge

George I have some photos of the INN taken 2 years ago inside and out. I will bring them to the reunion in Sept. I thought some may want to see how it looked. Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "George W. Durman" <GermannaResearch@comcast.net> To: <BROYLES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 12:51 AM Subject: [BROYLES] Re: [GERMANNA] Broylesville Inn At 5/21/04 02:10 AM Friday, you wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >This past week the Broylesville Inn was suspiciously burnt to the ground >with only the two chimneys remaining. It was over 200 years old and had >hosted three presidents (Jackson,Polk, and Harrison). It was an annual >tour for all of us that went to the East Tennessee Germanna Reunion and >although in disrepair was still an architectural wonder and would have >been a great candidate for restoration of one of the oldest buildings in >Tennessee with a long history as the stagecoach stop from Virginia to >Knoxville. The Inn was originally owned by Adam Broyles whose second wife >was the daughter of Samuel Doak, the founder of Washington College, the >first college in Tennessee. It is a shame that such a landmark was let to >decay and now destroyed. > >--- Jim Albin > >--- jealbin@earthlink.net **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** Jim called me on Friday and asked me to correct the above post. The three Presidents from Tennessee who stayed at the Broylesville Inn were Jackson, Johnson, and Polk. Some sources have said that the fact that these three Presidents actually stayed at the Inn is only conjecture; however, one has only to conduct a study of the road systems of that time period to see that it is almost certain that those notables did, indeed, spend the night there. The Broylesville Inn was on "The Old Stage Road", which ran from Abingdon, VA, to Knoxville, TN. In that time period, there were no "stop-overs" between those two towns except "Broylesville". So, if those Presidents had business anywhere between Washington, D.C. (Federal City), and the south (south of Nashville and west of the Carolinas), they would have almost certainly come down "The Old Stage Road". Given the speed of the stagecoaches at the time, a stopover would certainly have been necessary between Abingdon and Knoxville. Just for information, for the Germanna descendants of this area, the same "Old Stage Road" passed through what is now the Horse Creek area of Greene, County, and went right by the homes and farms of many of our BROYLES/WILHOIT relatives (and by the homes and farms of the families into which they married) in Greene County. In fact, the present road through that area STILL follows the Old Stage Road! It runs right in front of my uncle's (Glenn D. BROYLES') house on the original Jacob (Black Jake) BROYLES farm! Can't you see that old stage, pulled by 6 or 8 horses, bustling down that road, trying to get from Broylesville to Knoxville in one day? And, possibly carrying a President? Regards, SgtGeorge ==== BROYLES Mailing List ==== You can contact the List Manager at: broyles-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.690 / Virus Database: 451 - Release Date: 05/22/2004