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Barbara Fritchie House

This house was rebuilt in 1927 as a replica of the Fritchie

house destroyed by the repeated flooding of nearby

Carroll Creek. Material salvaged when the house was

torn down in 1868 was used to recreate the structure.

According to legend, 95 year old Barbara Fritchie

dauntlessly waved her Union flag as General Stonewall

Jackson and his troops marched through town in 1862.

The reputed events inspired John Greenleaf Whittier

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s

poem

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Barbara Fritchie.

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