| 1832/00/00 |
Francis S Preston |
Home |
A brick mansion is built as a retirement home for Robert Preston and Sarah B Preston and their 9 children. The original living room is now the main lobby of the hotel. The grand stairway and parlors are today much as they were in the 19C. |
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| 1832/00/00 |
Sarah Buchanan Preston |
Home |
A brick mansion is built as a retirement home for Robert Preston and Sarah B Preston and their 9 children. The original living room is now the main lobby of the hotel. The grand stairway and parlors are today much as they were in the 19C. |
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| 1858/00/00 |
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The Preston family sell their mansion for $21,000 to the founders of Martha Washington College, a lady's only institution. |
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| 1887/09/00 |
Edith Wilson |
Education |
At age 15, Edith Bolling enrolls at Martha Washington College in Abingdon, Virginia, to study music, with a second year at a smaller school in Richmond. |
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| 1932/00/00 |
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After the Great Depression, typhoid fever and a declining enrollment takes its toll, The Martha Washington College closes. |
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