Edge Hill (Gladstone, Virginia)

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Edge Hill
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Location1380 Edgehill Plantation Rd., near Gladstone, Virginia
Coordinates 37°30′42″N78°54′30″W / 37.51167°N 78.90833°W / 37.51167; -78.90833 Coordinates: 37°30′42″N78°54′30″W / 37.51167°N 78.90833°W / 37.51167; -78.90833
Area71 acres (29 ha)
Builtc. 1801 (1801), 1833, 1947
Built byIsaac W. Walker, Pendleton S. Clark
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No. 08000418 [1]
VLR No.005-0005
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 15, 2008
Designated VLRMarch 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. Sandra F. Esposito (October 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Edge Hill" (PDF). and Accompanying four photos