Sold: Three-bedroom colonial, one acre, the real Uncle Tom's cabin

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Sold: Three-bedroom colonial, one acre, the real Uncle Tom's cabin

By Stephen Manning
ASSOCIATED PRESS

8:55 a.m. December 24, 2005



Associated Press
In the brisk Washington real estate market, the white colonial was an easy sale – three bedrooms, easy access to a major commuting route and an acre of land, a rarity in the tightly packed suburbs.


ROCKVILLE, Md. – In the brisk Washington real estate market, the white colonial was an easy sale – three bedrooms, easy access to a major commuting route and an acre of land, a rarity in the tightly packed suburbs.

However, the 18th-century house had one thing the McMansions could never claim – the original Uncle Tom's cabin.

Attached to the side is a small, one-room building, its walls made of graying split oak beams. A massive stone chimney rises at the back, above the large hearth where slaves once tended meals for a plantation owner.

Among the farm's slaves was Josiah Henson, the man whom Harriet Beecher Stowe used as a model for the Uncle Tom character in her 1852 novel on slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Less than a month after being put on the market for about $1 million, the cabin and the house are being purchased by Montgomery County.


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