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The single story Mariah Wright House is topped with a gable roof and attic. The structure is roughly forty feet deep by eighteen feet wide. The west side of the house has a full length front porch and a central east porch of sixteen and a half feet by seven and a half feet. Both porches are on stone
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The Mariah Wright House had an attached kitchen wing added around 1890. In 1965 the
National Park Service restored the house, removing the kitchen wing and excavating a basement and full cement foundation. Extensive archeological investigations were conducted at this time and many
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Appomattox Court House: Appomattox Court House
National Historical Park, Virginia
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Archeological
Research Mariah Wright House Outbuildings, Historic Roads
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Jon B. Montgomery; Reed Engle & Clifford Tobias (May 8, 1989),
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A Great Civil War: A Military and
Political History, 1861-1865
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April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War
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Plantations and Outdoor Museums in America's Historic South
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765:Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
543:Historical Notes of Appomattox County, Virginia
146:Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
120:Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
515:The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts
198:A marker near titled "Lee's Last Attack" says:
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702:, Kent State University Press, 1995,
529:To Appomattox - Nine April Days, 1865
492:1953, Library of Congress # 53-9982,
246:"NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report"
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681:, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 2002,
472:Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
279:National Register of Historic Places
510:1953, Library of Congress # 56-5960
343:one photo, undated, at Virginia DHR
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636:, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990,
573:, Indiana University Press, 2000,
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674:, Oxford University Press, 1988,
608:, Hunter Publishing, Inc, 2005,
548:Featherston, Nathaniel Ragland,
517:, Wings Books, 1960 & 1982,
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18:United States historic place
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68:Appomattox County, Virginia
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541:Farrar, Stuart McDearmon,
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451:A Place Called Appomattox
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87:1,800 acres (728 ha)
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571:Vernacular Architecture
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604:Howard, Blair et al.,
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352:public domain material
257:public domain material
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37:U.S. Historic district
891:National Park Service
846:Charles Sweeney Cabin
698:Tidwell, William A.,
672:Battle Cry of Freedom
670:McPherson, James M.,
632:Kennedy, Frances H.,
606:The Virginia Handbook
477:Carroll, Orville W.,
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850:Sweeney-Conner Cabin
820:Plunkett-Meeks Store
719:Weigley, Russel F.,
569:Glassie, Henry H.,
504:This Hallowed Ground
78:Appomattox, Virginia
859:Bocock-Isbell House
854:Mariah Wright House
660:, UNC Press, 2006,
618:Kaiser, Harvey H.,
453:, UNC Press, 2000,
329:on January 15, 2009
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800:Clover Hill Tavern
658:Lee's Last Retreat
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