Edge Hill | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | March 20, 2008[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 005-0005 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 37.5117°N -78.9083°W |
Built: | c., 1833, 1947 |
Builder: | Isaac W. Walker, Pendleton S. Clark |
Architecture: | Federal |
Added: | May 15, 2008 |
Refnum: | 08000418 |
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.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.