Image photographed with a digital camera, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Lake Drummond Hotel

Artist Thomas Williamson (British, 1817-1860)

Manufacturer John Pendleton (American, 19th Century)

Manufacturer C. Hall

CultureAmerican

Date1830

MediumLithograph

DimensionsOverall: 11 3/4 x 14 7/8 in. (29.8 x 37.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. C. Wiley Grandy

Object number45.15.4

Not on view

DescriptionLithograph of the Lake Drummond Hotel and part of the Dismal Swamp Canal. Three sailboats and one steamboat are in the canal. The hotel is in the back, a one-story inn with lots of columns and a picket fence. From a sketch by Thos. Williamson, printed by Pendleton's, and published by C. Hall.

Exhibition HistoryWilloughby-Baylor House Published ReferencesBland Simpson, _Two Captains From Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War_ (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012) dust jacket. Bland Simspson, _Except from "Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War"_Coastwatch, North Carolina Sea Grant, Issue 1 (Winter 2018): 13-14.