The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-11-01
Historic Places in Old
Trinity
THE LONG HOUSE"

II
: the Incorporated limits, stands Wha
.1has been known for a long time a
the Long House" or the Col,r4n
: place. This house. belongs Who'll,
8 to the Trinity of long ago, and wa
superannuated some time before tn
New Trinity was ever dreamed of
+ This house. owing to the require
ments for which it was built, name
ly, a college boarding house, did no
| stem to suit for any other kind O
4 dwelling It had rooms in plenty
| doors in plenty. windows in plenty
but Withal lacking in so many thing.
to make one comfortable it was Ions
ago thought of as one of the has
Ebeens,' or one of the accessories Of
Trinity in the morning of life, anC
no doubt the Long House." stand,
ing inzthat impenetrable bog Of red
| mud, played we'll her part in the
drama of Old Trinity some time
about 1916 or 1850
This strange freak of architecture
stands facing the east, five rooms all
lopening upon a long piazza, upstairs
the same, and reached by stair
case running from the extreme
southern extremity of that long pi-
aZza The rooms. suppose, at the
time they were built looked all right
and probably seemed ample enough
for perhaps four students and para
phernalia, ETC. That was not a day
of pennants, golf clubs, tennis rae
quets, etc. / suppose that when four
boys took possession of one of these
shallow stateroom looking abodes,
with their trunks, table for books,
land probably few other accessories,
| they looked somewhat like the peo-
pie in Noah's Ark. But they no
doubt got along very we'll in those
little rooms all facing the glorious
sunrise. and comfortably warm to-
wards the first of June. In these Sc
ries of rooms all facing the east were
housed many young men from many
parts of the world, and while we
never admired the plan upon which
1.-THE old house was built. it no doubt
sheltered and fed many embryo
Millions and Cicefos. i.
This remarkable house was built
many years before the Civil War by
one Jimmie Welborn, and built es
pecially for housing and feeding the
college boys. This old house, al
though built upon such a muddy
foundation, made some pretensions
as to appearances, in fact there were
flowers in The long ago, they say,
blooming and winking at the sun
early in the morning. Boxwood
grew in front of the house, not bor-
ders, but just two large bushes, one
on each side of the walk. They still
live and thrive. and pratrle of the
days when Trini y was young and
tender. s..-
Innumerable families have lived
in the old Long House" in the red
lands of northern Trinity. When the
writer can first remember Rev. Ira
7. Wyche and family occupied the
house. Then the pr operty was bought
by Uncle Jesse" Coltrane, who
lived there While educating his own
| boys with a great many of other
peoples. After the Coltranes moved
back to their country home, the
house was rented to first one and
then another" The people who
have lived in the old Long House
| are legion.
For a considerable length of time
the Long House" fell into bad re-
pute, in other words, was considered
haunted, and so far as looks was
concerned. it did smack of things a
little uncanny and weird. Just to the
rear of the house only a few hun
dred yards is the cemetery where
Trinity buries her dead, and from
the west windows in this house one
has full view of the cemetery, and
guess this is why the place is
thought to harbor the shades of the
departed.
But be that as it may, this house
on lazy moonlight night woulC
make some people a little creepy
and many who might be brave iL
the daytime would find themselves
veritable Tam O'ShanteI s, land would
probably 60 home sooner if they al
had TO pass the old Long House
late atnight.
Some years ago before the house
was remodeled strange rumors were
afloat as to a white horse prone
nading up and down the long pi
aZza; but those tales were just abou
like what Tam told about AlloWa!
church, and all the Tams had bette
take home advice, and get home be
fore spooks and COLLINS sally fortl
and they are "catched wi war lock
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