'Old Weston - Left - Bailey House - Baily House Barber Shop - bill board - Allen Simpson property now torn down 'in this building Er Ralston opened 1856' and next the Fisher property - later Weston Independent.'
'Bailey House, 'Travelers Home', Mrs. L. S. Tunstill Proprietress. One block from depot. In center of city. Free sample rooms. $1.50 per day to everybody. Mrs. L. S. Tunstill, Proprietress.'
Customers in front of the Old Bailey House, Weston, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900
Description:
View of the old Bailey House, located on the corner of Main and Second Streets. 'The sign 'Bailey and Tunstil' on the store was Major Bailey and his son-in-law. In the group was David Bare, father; J. H. Bare, druggist; Andrew Edmiston, known as Sr., a long prominent lawyer; and John S. Camden, later of Parkersburg. Here Thomas Jackson, J. A. J. Lightburn, Johnson N. Camden, and G. J. Butcher took examination for West Point. Butcher won, stayed a week, then came home. Jackson went as a second choice.'
Major Minter Bailey (left) and Colonel John Stringer
Description:
'Major Minter Bailey, surveyor of Lewis County, and owner of the Bailey House, (left) and Colonel John Stringer, (right). Copy of a sketch from life by J. H. Diss Debar, 1847, made in "old" Bailey Hotel, Weston. From original in Department Archives and History.'
