Edge Hill | |
Location | 1380 Edgehill Plantation Rd., near Gladstone, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°30′42″N78°54′30″W / 37.51167°N 78.90833°W |
Area | 71 acres (29 ha) |
Built | c. 1801 | , 1833, 1947
Built by | Isaac W. Walker, Pendleton S. Clark |
Architectural style | Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 08000418 [1] |
VLR No. | 005-0005 |
Significant dates | |
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 in Amherst County, Virginia, near Gladstone. 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]
Shadwell is a census-designated place (CDP) in Albemarle County, Virginia. It is located by the Rivanna River near Charlottesville. The site today is marked by a Virginia Historical Marker to mark the birthplace of President Thomas Jefferson. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with Clifton.
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