Hinsons Ford Road

Billy Brown Cabin

The Brown family has been in Rappahannock County for centuries. This is the home of Billy Brown, currently occupied by Bob and Kathryn Treanor. Billy originally lived by the river in a cabin on the current Ziemer property, where he had ten children by his first wife and six by his second. The bottom land, by the river, was know as Billy Brown's Bottom. One of Billy's sons, Mossie Brown (after whom Mossie Lane is named), lived in that cabin until he moved to Hinson's Ford Road, where he lived with his wife Estelle, in a house currently owned by Dave and Kathy Shiff

The river cabin burned in the 1950's; the chimney fell down a few days after Mossie died in the late 1970's. The Brown family cemetery is nearby, on property currently owned by Roger Klinger.

The remains of a home belonging to John Jeffries, a freed slave, are located in a field just to the west of the Billy Brown home, on property now owned by Doug Seal. That building stood as recently as the 1980s; its remains are clearly visible.