There's no place like Hume

This 320-square-foot cabin may be the oldest building in Manassas, and is now open to the public

Restored by Grace United Methodist Church, it once housed slaves who worked on the Clover Hill Farm. The cabin, which measures only about 320 square feet, would have been intended for two families, and the slaves who lived there probably worked in the main house on the farm, which was about 400 or 500 feet away.

Restoring the slave quarters cost about $40,000, which included a new cedar-shingle roof, new doors and the acquisition of period furnishings, as well as historic reproductions such as a banjo made from a gourd.

Gen. Phil Sheridan, known as Little Phil, lead Cavalry Corps in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called “The Burning” by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched earth tactics in the war. 1861-65