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September 13, 2012

Historic occasion

Natalie Fultz CNHI

METCALFE — On Sunday, the community is invited to take an inside look into history. After two years of renovations, the renovated Rushin House will be open to the public.

After looking out to the house from Mary’s Kitchen, a restaurant in Metcalfe, Carolyn and Judson Butler decided it was time to see if the owners were ready to sell the house.

“We sat here (at Mary’s Kitchen) every day and looked out the windows. We saw the house practically falling down. I had gotten to the point where every time I looked at it, I wanted to cry because it was such a shame to see the house neglected,” said Carolyn Butler, the new owner and renovator. “The previous owner said that she was ready to sell, so we bought it and started working on it in January 2011. The first thing we replaced was the roof.”

The Rushin House was built in 1890 after James M. Rushin and his wife, Emily E. F. Bowles, decided they wanted to move to town from their plantation. Rushin moved from Macon with his brother just before the Civil War. Rushin married Thomas County’s Bowles in 1860. The Bowles family came to Thomas County as early as the 1830s.

See Friday's edition for more details.





 

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