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The Meetze House

 Photograph by L. Dempsey

503 North Lake Drive

1850

﻿This house was one of the last houses built in Lexington before the Civil War. It was the home of John Henry and Martha Carolina Kaminer Meetze. When Union General William T. Sherman issued the March to the Sea they came to this exact house. The Union soldiers tried to set fire to the house, but the slaves pleaded and told the Union soldiers that there was a baby inside. The house is now occupied by the Caughman-Harman Funeral Home. ﻿ 