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History > Where History Happened > Homes > Woodburn

HOMES: WOODBURN
Dentist Mahlon Kirk II (far left), family and friends relax at Woodburn in 1885. Located on Batchellors Forest Road, Woodburn grew from a log cabin built about 1800. During the Civil War Confederate troops sought to commandeer the Woodburn horses, but the widow Kirk distracted them with food while farmhands hid the mounts. Following four generations of Kirks the home was owned successively by the Dinwiddie family, Allan and Lilly Brooke, Louis and Maylou Hatzes, and today by Edmund and Leslie Cronin.
	Men to the fore, women behind in this line-up of Kirk generations at Woodburn in the 1890s. From left, front: Dr. Mahlon Kirk II, young Mahlon IV, and Mahlon III; back, Mary T. Kirk, Fannie, and May. During World War I, note the Annals, Mary and Frances Kirk made more than 5,000 containers of jelly and jam for convalescent soldiers.