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| newspaper advertisement from July 11, 1912 |
George Thomas Potts was born 1836 in England, in the county of Kent to be exact. He immigrated in 1867 to the United States living first in the Southside. He married Lenora Scammel in Petersburg in 1886. In the 1890s he bought the large Meadowville farm in the Bermuda area of Chesterfield near Dutch Gap where he became known as a great entertainer of hunters and outdoorsmen.
In January of 1912, after selling Meadowville the previous year, he bought Providence Hall in Providence Forge and opened a veterinary practice on the upper Peninsula.
Providence Hall was the historic colonial house in "downtown" Providence Forge . . . until it was taken apart and moved to Colonial Williamsburg to make way for the new enlarged Rt. 60 in the late 1940s.
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| Providence Hall in the 1930s |
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