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rj 6 NPS Form 10 - 900 - a OMB No . 1024 - 0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service i NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page 18 Woodville Historic District Bertie County, North Carolina i Rawls wrote " all hands sick . . . Sick myself. " Rawls also noted social events and the many friends who came to visit . Just before the onset of the Civil War, Joseph James Pugh, son of William Alston Pugh, " rebuilt" Col . Jesse Averitt ' s old house as a Greek Revival two - story plantation house of Italianate design with elegant window hoods [Pugh-Thompson House] . 10 Lewis Thompson ' s son Thomas W . , who had gradually taken over ! management of his father' s plantations, apparently was in the Confederate Army in 1861 , but returned during lt an Italianate house for himself at the. corner of the main road and Hill ' s Ferry the war to Bertie County , He but Road about 1863 [Thomas W . Thompson House] . These were the last houses built in antebellum Woodville . The Civil War impacted the fortunes and everyday life of Woodville ' s citizens enormously, for when its planters lost their slaves , they lost the manpower on which their plantations depended . Lewis Thompson ' s son William spent the war years in Louisiana, while his daughters Pattie and Mary Bond remained at St . Mary' s School in Raleigh . In addition to his plantations, Lewis Thompson had many investments, chiefly through New York bankers, and invested heavily in Confederate bonds . ewis Thompson attempted to re- establish his financial network . He began to ship Following the war' s end L cotton through Baltimore instead of exclusively through Norfolk . The Lewis Thompson papers contain contracts for sharecropping and farm labor and letters from William in Louisiana who appeared to have a hard time getting the sugar cane plantation back . on track with hired labor , Lewis Thompson died in early December, 1867 , leaving his wife Margaret and sons Thomas and William to settle his vast estate in the midst of the cataclysmic economic and political changes of the Reconstruction era . His daughter, Pattie, had died the year before, and his grief is thought to have hastened his death . The ost- Civil War ears were hard for Woodville citizens but life went on . By 1870 overseer Moore Rawls p y had purchased his own farm with eighty improved acres and 300 acres of unimproved woodland , valued at $ 1 , 200 . He paid $300 in wages that year for workers . He also had three horses ; three cows and eight " other " cattle, four sheep, and 25 swine . Mary Bond Thompson married Burges Urquhart of Southampton County, Virginia in 1871 . The couple lived in her homeplace and raised a large family . The post office was moved in ing village just to the north . About 1876 the Episcopalians built a rectory 1872 to Lewiston, the up - and - com behind the church on land given by Lewis Thompson ' s widow Margaret [Rectory] . In the 1880s the old tavern i burned . When the Roanoke and Tar River Railroad came through the vicinity in 1888 , it was routed through Lewiston rather than through Woodville. Charles Smallwood ' s judgement of Woodville in 1894 , near the end of his life, lamented the passing of an era . "Woodville does not by any means present the same appearance that it did sixty years ago , The beautiful groves in which many of the residences were placed have been cut up , some of them in parts cultivated . The old Tavern 10 " Recollections of Woodville , "