Bullovh Hall
Seeing the Bulloch hall for first time, more than a historic building I felt it as something bright and pure and radiating. Just a glance at it turns our memories to about two hundred year back when the only way to escape cold winter was a warm fireplace and transportation was hand?oared boats and wagons. This same hall was the girlhood home of Mitte Bulloch, mother of the 26th president Theodore Roosevelt and grandmother of First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. Major James Stephen Bulloch, one of Roswell's first settlers and the grandson of Governor of Archibald Bulloch built the Bulloch hall in 1840. More than calling it a hall it should be called the Bulloch home, because it shows all the characters of a comfortable home. The entrance of this hall draws our attention to the long hallway lying across the house connecting all rooms and stairs. The first room from the hallway is the parlor which has an old, royal piano and a huge fireplace (the house altogether has 11 fireplaces). There are big huge windows in the parlor that lets the sunrays come through. The next was the dinning room, which was decorated by silverware from that period. The most wonderful thing that we see throughout this house is its f
James Stephen Bulloch inherited a solid faith in God in him. He was a well?educated clergyman, well versed in Latin and Greek, a member of South Carolina assembly and a planter of means. At the age of forty?two, he was elected Speaker of the Royal Assembly of Georgia. He served as a delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1775. James Bulloch and the Elliott's daughter, Hester Amarinthia, were eventually married. Hester Bulloch presented her husband with a son, James Dunwoody Bulloch, on June 25, 1823 and died four years later. James Bulloch and the widowed Martha Stewart Elliott were wed on May 8, 1832. Daughter Anna was born to James and Martha in 1833, and in 1835 on July 8th Martha (Mittie) was born. James and Martha Bulloch left Savannah in the spring of 1838 and arrived at the red clay banks of Chattahoochee River, where they begun there new life in Roswell. The Wing room is adjacent to museum and this room display the pictures of Virginia Wing Power and her personal accessories like her silver hairbrush to her Bachelors of Arts certificate which she received from Agnes Scott College. Lots of pictures of Virginia from her childhood, her first birthday, her graduation are all displayed in here. Hand painted Limoges is displayed here which were worn during the wedding of Suddath Wing and Jehu Bartow Wing in 1904. Down in the basement is the kitchen and storage room with a room for dining next to it. In the dining room is a tree trunk that is dated from 1793?1995. The dining room has a table to seat eight people. The kitchen floor is made of bricks and stone unlike the other rooms that has wooden flooring. The whole house is well ventilated. Even sun's rays reach the basement kitchen. The whole house is surrounded by plants and trees through which sun's ray shine on the hall. Outside the house we can see a site for slaves, the slave quarters was constructed on the original site in 1998. The Privy was also reconstructed in 1998, next to the barn. All the way down, we can see a well, which was used to draw water during the earlier times. This hall has been the host for various important activities like the wedding of Mitte, on December 22, 1853 to Theodore Roosevelt. In 1905, President Roosevelt came to see his mother's childhood home and spoke to the crowd from bandstand in the Town Square. The historical society has put together a museum in the buildings second floor and it has lot of articles of historic
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