Another antebellum residence by contractor B.F. Rawlinson
City Directories and History: In the 1950’s and well into the early 1970’s Ebenezer Road remained a corridor of historic properties on either side of the road. Behind most of these houses on the west side were farms and fields stretching for miles over to what is today Highway #5 at Meadow Lakes. It was only on good days and with the knowledge of how to access these areas that what is today Herlong Road, in front of Piedmont Medical Hospital was entered next to what was then the Barron house. The location of the hospital was the Barron’s grove of old oaks.
Historically the Barron House was one of many constructed by local contractor and planter B. F. Rawlinson. He constructed speculative dwellings for the purpose of selling them as do builders in the 20th century. In circa 1859-60 he had finished the Matthews house across the street from this home and began its construction. It was initially sold to Henry L. Killian. The house had a fine double piazza on the front, not the shed porch shown in the photograph. Samuel W. Barron purchased the house in 1902 and it was during this early period that the current porches were most likely added. The Barron family lived here until the house was demolished to make room for an expanded and extended Herlong Road in the 1970’s.
[The address is the approximate location of the original home. Much of the information on this and other sites in Ebenezer is furnished via courtesy of the late historian and author, Mr. S.B. Mendenhall]
*** Note that Henry L. Killian has lived in ca. 1844 north of Bethany and served for a short period as the Nero Postmaster.
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