Name/Title
Lawyers Row and Barber ShopEntry/Object ID
IMG6 ve2Description
Lawyers Row at Washington and George Streets in Charles Town, West Virginia across the street from the Jefferson County Court House. Shown in the photograph are (left to right) George Rutherford Moore, James H. Thompson, Walter Moten, and Charles E. Baylor.
Those occupying offices were William L. Wilson and George W. Baylor, law partners; Frank Beckwith and Thomas Claiborne Green, law partners; and George Rutherford Moore, insurance agent. African American James H. Thompson leased the barbershop from Florence Hunter and Mary E. Hunter Kent and African American Walter Moten worked in the shop.
Lawyers Row and the barbershop were torn down in 1907 and the Farmers and Merchants Deposit Company was built.Acquisition
Accession
00Source or Donor
Found in collectionAcquisition Method
GiftMade/Created
Date made
1890 - circa 1907Place
* Untyped Place
Charles Town, West Virginia