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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20060614
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Byline: DIANE TENNANT

BY DIANE TENNANT

THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

WARFIELD - This is a story that begins with Tom and Henry Simmons , who built a house in the woods of Brunswick County in 1734 .

They constructed it out of handmade bricks and thick hewn wood, two rooms on top and two on the bottom.

Then they died. That's all anyone knows about them, really, except that they're buried in the little cemetery out back.

So the house was sold, maybe in the early 1800s, to Dr. Sterling Tucker , who maybe cleared some woods around the place but left in the backyard a ...

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