Bon Air, also known as the Adam and Susan Bear House and Bear Lithia, is a historic home located near Elkton,

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. It was built about 1870, and is a two-story, central-passage plan brick dwelling with

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and

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style decorative details. It has a metal-sheathed, hip-and-deck roof, a rear two story ell, front and back porches, and two one-story bay windows on the front facade. Also on the property is a contributing two-level meat house/storage building. The house stands next to Bear Lithia Springs, a boldly flowing water source acquired by the Bear family during the colonial period and commercially exploited in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. an
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in 2007.

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