Edge Hill (Gladstone, Virginia) Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 2013-09-21. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Edge Hill . Sandra F. Esposito. October 2007. and Accompanying four photos