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Window at Chinqua Penn in Reidsville, NC
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- Date created
- January 6, 2007
- Location
- Reidsville, North Carolina
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- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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This is a window of the Chinqua Penn home in Reidsville, North Carolina. The house was built in the 1920s by Thomas Jefferson Penn (1875-1946) — a businessman and farmer — and his wife, Beatrice Schoellkopf Penn (1881-1965). The Chinqua Penn Plantation was named after the chinquapin, a chestnut tree that grew in abundance here before being destroyed by a blight in the 1930s.
