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Updated: June 13, 2025
Cooper Carriage House is located east of the professional building which was a part of Coomb's Cottage. Another house built before the Civil War was the home of Judge Henry W. Thomas which stood on the site now occupied by the large, pillared, grey stucco house belonging to Mrs. John Barbour. This house served as headquarters for the Union officers and afterwards as a hospital.
They called it "Rose Bower". A son, Thomas Nelson Conrad, served as a Captain in the Confederate Army and at one time as a Rebel Scout. In 1859 it was bought by a Mr. Thomas Murray who later rented it to a lawyer by the name of Thomas Moore. Mr. Moore had married one of the young ladies who attended Coomb's Cottage a Miss Hannah Morris from Oswego County, New York. Mr.
Known as Coomb's Cottage, it was a finishing school for young girls and boasted a roster of approximately one hundred young ladies from both the north and the south. The school was built and established by Dr. and Mrs. Baker, who were English. Two of these are located across Route 236 from the Church and are still standing today. One is a professional building, the other a private home.
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