Pottery and Dyer Shop

After getting home and rummaging through brochures we discovered that we missed one building in Bethabara.  Since we were going back to Winston-Salem anyway, we decided to zip by Bethabara and see the oldest brick structure in the county.

Johannes Schaub, Jr. decided in 1780 to move to Bethabara - and was warmly welcomed because prior to his coming everyone in the settlement had to send their yarn back to Pennsylvania to be dyed - a time-consuming and expensive problem.  Schaub built this house two years later, 1782.  In 1789 he sold his home and business to Gottlob Krause, and John Butner bought Krause out in 1802. 

I love what I call Dutch doors - where it's cut in half and you can open the top half to let in light and fresh air, but the bottom half stays shut and keeps the critters out.  The doorknob being way up high keeps the kids in!

This side is where they must have done their dying, but the kiln for firing his pottery was located in back.  What looks like dots across the roof line are log ends sticking out from the attic flooring supports.

This photo shows how they plastered over the rocks and then painted lines so it would look classier. The bottom left hand corner has a strange bulge to be made of straight edge blocks.  Still, it does look pretty good. 

I don't know if this is a period sign, but I like it.  In fact, I'd like to buy some yarn that color today!