These settlers included a number who established plantations, became relatively large slaveholders, and developed a plantation society of considerable wealth. Post-war recovery and an early twentieth century resurgence based largely on tobacco sales brought some changes to the townscape, but a lack of rapid economic loss or growth, the permanence and long memories of old families, excellent local memoirs, and an innate conservatism have enabled Warrenton to retain much of its important architectural fabric and distinctively Southern charm.ĭuring the eighteenth century, the land south of the Virginia border in the eastern Piedmont was settled largely by people who came from or through Virginia to claim the land which was well suited for tobacco growing. The modest scale and gracious tree-shaded character of the townscape are given panache by a unified collection of highly cubical mid-nineteenth century buildings whose rich variety of classical and vernacular detail ranges from chaste Doric porches and columned entrances to the lively bracket cornices and arched ornament of the Italianate. This boom era produced, through the work of builders and craftsmen from Prince Edward County, Virginia, including Jacob Holt and others, a remarkable body of Greek Revival and Greco-Italianate architecture of a high quality, robust individualism, and stylistic coherence seldom rivaled in the South. Noted for its fine schools, influential and cosmopolitan citizenry, and active social and sporting life - including racing and gambling - Warrenton boomed during the twenty years before the Civil War. Established in 1779, it was the center of wealthy plantation culture based on tobacco and cotton. Warrenton is a small, intensely Southern courthouse town whose townscape and way of life retain much of the character of the place in antebellum years. Portions of the content on this web page were adapted from a copy of the original nomination document. There are also two trust funds being set up for Bobbitt, including a retirement fund and one to give him an annual salary, according to the GoFundMe page.The Warrenton Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Bobbitt said he will have pictures of it in coming days on his newly minted Instagram account. No information was revealed about where Bobbitt’s new house is located. After he learned the man’s story, he started the campaign to help him get off the streets and reunite him with his family. He hopes his fans continue to pay it forward.Īccording to the GoFundMe page for that homeless veteran, a student at a Philadelphia Catholic school met the man walking home from school each day. In addition to buying his house and eventually his dream truck (a 1999 Ford Ranger), he said he is donating some of his money to a Philadelphia grade school student who is helping another homeless veteran. Bobbitt has said it was a mix of “bad decisions and bad situations.”
Marine Corps and worked as a paramedic in Vance County, North Carolina, before he became homeless.ĭetails on how he wound up on the streets of Philadelphia have been sparse. As of Tuesday afternoon the fundraiser has raised more than $397,000.īobbitt served in the U.S. She and her boyfriend created the online fundraiser page as a thank you and to try to help him get back on his feet. She didn’t have money to repay him at the time, but sought him out days later to give him the money, and visited him a few more times to bring food and water. Bobbitt walked a few blocks to buy her gas. Kate McClure, of Florence Township, New Jersey, ran out of gas on an Interstate 95 exit ramp late one night. “I’ll continue to thank you every single day for the rest of my life.” “The feeling is indescribable and (it’s) all thanks to the support and generosity that each and every one of you has shown,” Johnny Bobbitt Jr. A homeless man who used his last $20 to fill up the gas tank of a stranded motorist in Philadelphia has bought a home with some of the nearly $400,000 raised for him by the woman he saved.
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