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Efforts Underway to Restore Artifacts at Historic Hill House

February 10, 2018

By Heather McGinley
Correspondent
The Virginian-Pilot

Visitors can hear the echo of footsteps as they cross hardwood floors in the music room usually covered with furniture and oriental carpets. Light from windows missing their curtains reveals cracked plaster in naked walls and sections of exposed brick in Grandma Collins’ room at the Hill House Museum, a historic home in Olde Towne built about 1825.

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