The Petry-Honan home at 127 Cherry
The Petry-Honan Home


The Petry–Honan home was has been a “Tour of Homes” favorite since it was first featured in the 1974 Eufaula Pilgrimage. The home has a number of unique features that make it very popular:

  • The Petry-Honan home, built circa 1868, home has been occupied by the Petry-Stewart-Honan family since 1876. This is far longer than any other home on the Eufaula Pilgrimage Tour of Homes. Having the same family in the home for over 130 years has resulted in a treasure trove of antique furnishings, clothing and documents being preserved in the home.

  • The Petry-Honan home is the only home in Eufaula that still has its original detached kitchen intact.


The Old Kitchen
“The Old Kitchen”


  • The Petry-Honan home, with its one of a kind “tank room” under the eaves, was one of the first--if not the first--home in Eufaula, to have running water.

  • The Petry-Honan Home is the only home on the tour in which all of the Hosts and Hostesses wear period clothing. It creates a special atmosphere that the Pilgrims really enjoy.

Anmarie and Terry Honan welcome Pilgrims in their period attire.<br /><br /><br />The Petry–Honan home was has been a “Tour of Homes” favorite since it was first featured in the1974 Eufaula Pilgrimage. The home has a number of unique features that make it very popular: <br /><br />The Petry-Honan, built circa 1868, home has been occupied by the Petry-Stewart-Honan family since 1876. This is far longer than any other home on the Eufaula Pilgrimage Tour of Homes. Having the same family in the home for over 130 years has resulted in a treasure trove of antique furnishings, clothing and documents being preserved in the home.<br /><br />The Petry-Honan home is the only home in Eufaula that still has its original detached kitchen intact.<br /><br />“The Old Kitchen”<br /><br />The Petry-Honan home, with its one of a kind “tank room” under the eaves, was one of the first, if not the first home in Eufaula, to have running water. <br /><br />The Petry-Honan Home is the only home on the tour in which all of the Hosts and Hostesses wear period clothing. This is the only home on the tour that does this. It creates a special atmosphere that the Pilgrims really enjoy. <br /><br />Anmarie and Terry Honan welcome Pilgrims in their period attire.<br /><br />Cannon Firing: Major Edward White started the family tradition of cannon firing. Major White served as an officer in Lafayette’s Light Infantry during the American Revolution. He made it a rule and duty to celebrate, with his neighbors, all the battles of the Revolution that he had fought in. He had a four-pounder cannon on his plantation near Milledgeville, Georgia which he used to fire the salute on such occasions. Whenever the cannon fired, it was a signal and invitation to neighbors to come celebrate, eat barbecue and drink rum. The Honan’s continues the tradition with Terry’s four-pounder cannon which is fired at the Petry-Honan Home during the pilgrimage by a group of War Between the States reenactors. {MTH – Insert link to Cannon Firing page}<br /><br />Firing the Four-pounder Cannon<br /><br />No other private home on the tour has the extensive collection of Barbour County and Eufaula family history that you find in the Petry-Honan home. <br /> <br />Terry Honan’s family settled in Barbour County in 1818, the year before Alabama became a state. <br /><br />Terry’s Great 4th - grandfather, Edmond Hobdy, served on the first county commission of Pike County in 1821, which included part of what is now Barbour County. <br /> <br />Edmond’s son and Terry’s Great 3rd - grandfather, Harrell Hobdy, was Barbour County’s first sheriff in 1833. <br /><br />The last Indian battle in this area, the Battle of Hobdy Bridge, occurred on the Hobdy Plantation in 1837. <br /><br />Harrell Hobdy’s father-in-law, John McNeill, Terry’s Great 4th - grandfather, in 1820 became the first white man to die in what is now Barbour County.<br /> <br />In 1840, Terry’s Gr-Gr-grandfather, N. Montross Hyatt, settled in Irwinton, the town that in 1842 changed its name to Eufaula. Judge N. Montross Hyatt, Eufaula’s first silversmith and long time justice of the peace, served on the City of Eufaula’s first city council.<br /><br /><br />Terry’s Gr-4th-grandfather’s, Abraham Hyatt’s, Revolutionary War Commission Signed by John Hancock.<br /><br /><br />The Petry-Honan home will be open:<br />Friday, March 30, 2007, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM<br />Saturday, March 31, 2007, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM<br />Sunday, April 1, 2007, 1:00 PM – 5 PM<br />
Anmarie and Terry Honan welcome Pilgrims in their period attire.


  • Cannon Firing: Major Edward White started the family tradition of cannon firing. Major White served as an officer in Lafayette’s Light Infantry during the American Revolution. He made it a rule and duty to celebrate, with his neighbors, all the battles of the Revolution that he had fought in. He had a four-pounder cannon on his plantation near Milledgeville, Georgia which he used to fire the salute on such occasions. Whenever the cannon fired, it was a signal and invitation to neighbors to come celebrate, eat barbecue and drink rum. The Honan’s continues the tradition with Terry’s four-pounder cannon which is fired at the Petry-Honan Home during the pilgrimage by a group of War Between the States reenactors.

Firing the Four-pounder Cannon
Firing the Four-pounder Cannon


No other private home on the tour has the extensive collection of Barbour County and Eufaula family history that you find in the Petry-Honan home:

  • Terry Honan’s family settled in Barbour County in 1818, the year before Alabama became a state.

  • Terry’s Great 4th - grandfather, Edmond Hobdy, served on the first county commission of Pike County in 1821, which included part of what is now Barbour County.

  • Edmond’s son and Terry’s Great 3rd - grandfather, Harrell Hobdy, was Barbour County’s first sheriff in 1833.

  • The last Indian battle in this area, the Battle of Hobdy Bridge, occurred on the Hobdy Plantation in 1837.

  • Harrell Hobdy’s father-in-law, John McNeill, Terry’s Great 4th - grandfather, in 1820 became the first white man to die in what is now Barbour County.

  • In 1840, Terry’s Gr-Gr-grandfather, N. Montross Hyatt, settled in Irwinton, the town that in 1842 changed its name to Eufaula. Judge N. Montross Hyatt, Eufaula’s first silversmith and long time justice of the peace, served on the City of Eufaula’s first city council.

Hyatt Commission Rev 2
Terry’s Gr-4th-grandfather’s, Abraham Hyatt’s, Revolutionary War Commission Signed by John Hancock.



The Petry-Honan home will be open:
Friday, April 4, 2008, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday, April 5, 2008, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday, April 6, 2008, 1:00 PM – 5 PM