During the years before the Civil War, the paper became a leading political journal, with Hale acting as a major spokesman for the Whig party. Waldo had launched in 1817 as the Carolina Observer (North Carolina’s oldest newspaper still published). From 1825 to 1865, he published the Fayetteville Observer, which Francis W. Hale bought this property in 1847 and constructed the house in the 1850s., Hale born in Chatham County on September 9, 1802, received an education in journalism on the Raleigh Register and the National Intelligencer in Washington, D.C. Across the street is the Hale-Williams House, notable for the variety of architectural styles it incorporates as well as for the prominence of its builder, Edward Jones Hale.
During the Halloween season, and other selected weekends, the Nathan Hale Fifes and Drums put on colonial encampments and even do battle reenactments.Edward J. Employees dressed as various members of the Hale family often greet visitors, giving tours of the place, and telling about life in the 1700s. The Coventry Society for the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society believes in bringing history to life, and offer special programs to the public, that demonstrate the way of life of the people, and special historical occurrences. He dedicated his life to make Nathan Hale famous, and took copious notes of all the legends and stories of the Hale family, including reported ghostly sightings at the Homestead. Luckily, the mansion was rescued by George Dudley Seymour, a Captain Nathan Hale admirer, who restored the place to its former glory. Time wasn’t kind to the old mansion, and by 1914, it was described as being “isolated, dilapidated, unpainted, and vacant,” in a sad state of affairs. His widow and four children came to live afterwards at the Hale Homestead.
When he came down with TB, he retreated to his father’s mansion to finally die there in 1784. Another brother, Joseph Hale, came back to the area, and raised a family near his father’s mansion. John Hale married one of his stepsisters, Sara, and the couple lived and died in the house (1802/1803), shortly after Deacon Richard had died in 1802. This mansion had its own schoolroom, as well as plenty of space for such a large family.Īfter the children grew up and moved away, various members of the Hale family lived in this large mansion for several decades. What a huge blended family! Deacon Hale rebuilt the mansion into a two family mansion. Two years later, Deacon Richard married a widow, Abigail Cobb, who brought 7 teenage girls along with her. Hale died in 1767 after the birth of her 12th child, when Nathan was 12 years old. His famous last words before being killed, were “I regret that I have only one life to give for my county.” He fully lived and believed the sentiment behind those words, even if they may have been slightly different, in reality. While on a daring spy mission for the Militia, Captain Nathan was captured by the British and hung as a spy, barely 21 years old. The size of the mansion grew to house their large family of 12 children, of which the Revolutionary hero, Captain Nathan Hale was one. The original, 1 family mansion was built around 1746, when Deacon Richard Hale bought a large farm and married Elizabeth Strong.
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