Edge Hill (Gladstone, Virginia)
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Edge Hill | |
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| Location | 1380 Edgehill Plantation Rd., near Gladstone, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°30′42″N 78°54′30″W / 37.51167°N 78.90833°WCoordinates: 37°30′42″N 78°54′30″W / 37.51167°N 78.90833°W |
| Area | 71 acres (29 ha) |
| Built | c. 1801, 1833, 1947 |
| Built by | Walker, Isaac W.; Clark, Pendleton S. |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| NRHP Reference # | 08000418[1] |
| VLR # | 005-0005 |
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| Added to NRHP | May 15, 2008 |
| Designated VLR | March 20, 2008[2] |
Edge Hill, also known as Green Hills and Walker's Ford Sawmill is a historic home and farm located near Gladstone, Amherst County, Virginia. The main house was built in 1833, and is a two-story, brick I-house in the Federal-style. It has a standing seam metal gable roof and two interior end chimneys. Attached to the house by a former breezeway enclosed in 1947, is the former overseer’s house, built about 1801. Also on the property are the contributing office, pumphouse, corncrib, and log-framed barn all dated to about 1833. Below the bluff, adjacent to the railroad and near the James River, are four additional outbuildings: a sawmill and shed (1865), tobacco barn, and a post and beam two-story cattle barn (c. 1947). Archaeological sites on the farm include slave quarters, additional outbuildings and a slave cemetery.[3]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]
References
- 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
- ↑ Sandra F. Esposito (October 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Edge Hill" (PDF). and Accompanying four photos
