Vintage

Arkansas Historic Preservation Program’s "Sandwiching in History" offers tours each month to historic properties. This month's tour was of the Potts Inn in Pottsville which was a historic Butterfield Stagecoach Station. The house was completed in 1858. 

There is a sense of awe when I step into a historic home like the Pott's home. So many questions arise. Who walked these floors besides Kirbride and Pameila Potts and their eleven children? Who spent the night after a dreadful stagecoach ride? Whose mail was brought into the house and sorted by Mr. Pott's whose home served as a post office? Who made the bricks for the four chimneys? Who supplied all the wood for the nine fireplaces? Who attended teas and musicals in the parlor? 

And, who made the gorgeous quilts throughout the home? Not all the items on display are original with the Potts family, so there is no way of knowing who made them. The one that took my breath away was the Log Cabin quilt in the master bedroom that was made entirely of silks. The Log Cabin pattern to me is rustic and usually made of cottons. This one was such a surprise.

I also found the Potts Cemetery where Kirkbride and Pameila were buried. It is a very small family cemetery with more rocks as gravestones than actual gravestones.

It was such a great day seeing part of Arkansas that I'd not been to before.