Red Hills (Charlottesville, Virginia) Explained

Red Hills
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:December 3, 1997[1]
Designated Other1 Number:002-0066
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:38.0947°N -78.4275°W
Built:c.
Builder:Milton L. Grigg, William Hale
Architecture:Georgian, Colonial Revival
Added:February 13, 1998
Refnum:98000047

Red Hills is a historic home and farm complex located near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It consists of a two-story, five bay brick main section built about 1797 in the Georgian style, and two brick rear wings. It has a modern, one-story frame wing. The front facade features one-story, gabled portico of Colonial Revival design added about 1939. Also on the property are a contributing barn (early-20th century), corncrib and shed (early-20th century), shed (late-19th century), well (19th century), and slave cemetery (19th century).[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Slave Population

According to the 1850 census, Red Hills Plantation was tended by a labor force of 24 slaves; many of these slaves lie in the slave cemetery which is still a part of the Red Hills property.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-05-12.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Red Hills . J. Daniel Pevoni and Leslie A. Giles . September 1997. and Accompanying photo
  3. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service. September 11, 1997. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Red Hills.