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The Valentine Homestead includes an earlier house built about 1810 that was originally owned by Garret and Rachel Smith, whose daughter Maria married Jacob Valentine. The first and largest two-and-a-half-story block of the present house was constructed about 1820 by the Valentines, who were carpenters and house builders, and it features a Greek Revival doorway, two interior chimneys, and a later wraparound porch with Tuscan-style columns. A smaller second block was built about 1870. Their son Garret Valentine served as the local tax collector and buried collected tax money in the pig sty until it could be safely deposited in the bank. During World War Two the house was The Blue Churn tea room.
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