The Evening Star
![Left Picture: Now a dilapidated chicken coop, the old office of the tobacco inspector is one of the last three colonial structure remaining in Dumfries. It once
was the center of the community's booming tobacco [?]
Right Picture: H. Clay Speake, 90, who [well?] remembers when "the Northerners and the Southerners had quite a scrimmage hereabouts," leans on the monument marking the site of the old courthouse, where George Washington often attended sessions. Citizens [past?] here in 1774 to approve Revolutionary measures.](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/14740/c1092870-e3ea-11ef-a747-05c34cb8776b-vUXm9s0.lg@2x.jpg)
Left Picture: Now a dilapidated chicken coop, the old office of the tobacco inspector is one of the last three colonial structure remaining in Dumfries. It once was the center of the community's booming tobacco [?] Right Picture: H. Clay Speake, 90, who [well?] remembers when "the Northerners and the Southerners had quite a scrimmage hereabouts," leans on the monument marking the site of the old courthouse, where George Washington often attended sessions. Citizens [past?] here in 1774 to approve Revolutionary measures.