Reidsville, March 8—When the small cabin-like at the southeast corner of Washington and Henry streets, known to be 80 years old, was razed Thursday afternoon, Leaksville lost one of its oldest buildings and its most historical landmark.
This little frame cabin was once the tailor shop of Andrew Johnson, who, as vice president in Lincoln’s administration, succeeded to the presidency. As related by old citizens, Andrew Johnson, then a journeyman tailor, was working northward from South Carolina and elected to stop in Leaksville for a while and fit up the gentry. He rented the little building of the Hampton estate and plied his trade there for several months, leaving for Tennessee where he combined politics with his trade and in 1864 became a running mate with Lincoln and was elected vice president, and in 1865 succeeded to the presidency.
The building gives way to a brick building to be erected by M. Hampton Pratt of Madison. For some time two Greeks have held forth as restaurants in the famous tailor shop.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, March 9, 1926
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