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Advertisement, c.1865-1892

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This collection consists of a single printed advertisement seeking summer tourists to come and stay at "Hicks House" in the town of Appomattox Courthouse to see the site of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender at the end of the American Civil War. It lists E.G. Hix as the proprietor and boasts that the accommodations are, "pleasant [and] quiet" and only, "two miles and a half from Appomattox Station."

Dates: c.1865-1892