Qualla: Point of Honor https://qualla.com/point-of-honor en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/s/point-of-honor-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Point of Honor https://qualla.com/point-of-honor Point of Honor: Introduction https://qualla.com/point-of-honor/ Photo credit Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name is probably a euphemism. A point of honor was what the polite nineteenth-century South called a duel — a matter to be settled with pistols, at twenty paces, at dawn, on land where no constable was likely to interrupt. Local legend holds that the hilltop above the James River south of Lynchburg, where Dr. George Cabell built his mansion between 1806 and 1815, was a clandestine dueling ground before it was a residential address. No documentary record of a duel on this spot has been found, and historians consider the origin of the name an open question — but the dueling legend has attached itself to the house since at least the early nineteenth century, and Cabell, who was not a man short on irony, may well have enjoyed the association. He was a fashionable physician — friend of Thomas Jefferson, doctor to Patrick Henry — and the Federal-style brick villa he built on this dueling ground would become one of the most interesting houses in Lynchburg.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/s/point-of-honor-wp/dnxs-point-of-honor-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Point of Honor: The Doctor and the President https://qualla.com/point-of-honor/ Photo credit Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0. George Cabell was one of the most prominent physicians in early-nineteenth-century Virginia. He attended Patrick Henry in his final illness in 1799 — the Revolutionary orator was Cabell's patient — and he kept up a long correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, who was both his frien...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/s/point-of-honor-wp/dnxs-point-of-honor-the-doctor-and-the-president.mp3 0:06 2 full Point of Honor: An Irregular Federal House https://qualla.com/point-of-honor/ Photo credit Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0. Construction began in 1806 — the same year Jefferson started Poplar Forest — and finished in 1815. The two-story Federal mansion is built of stuccoed brick, irregular in plan: a three-bay center section flanked by two octagonal-ended projections, one on each side, that give the f...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/s/point-of-honor-wp/dnxs-point-of-honor-an-irregular-federal-house.mp3 0:06 3 full Point of Honor: The Langhornes https://qualla.com/point-of-honor/ Photo credit Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cabell died in 1823 after falling from a horse. The house passed through his widow and then his son's family, and in 1828 the Langhornes — a Lynchburg industrial family who owned the Langhorne Mills — bought it. Members of the Langhorne family owned Point of Honor at two differen...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/s/point-of-honor-wp/dnxs-point-of-honor-the-langhornes.mp3 0:06 4 full Point of Honor: A Civic Bequest https://qualla.com/point-of-honor/ Photo credit Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0. By 1878 the house belonged to L. E. Lichford, a grocery wholesaler. Three generations of the Lichfords lived here while the surrounding neighborhood — Daniel's Hill — filled in around them with Victorian and Colonial Revival houses. In 1928 James R. Gilliam Jr. bought Point of Ho...

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