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Circa 1720 Home
247 Acres
Under Contract
This home dates back to 1720 and offers some interesting history.
It has retained most of its original features with the addition of some modern amenities including two baths, heat and air conditioning.
The wide flooring, fireplaces, chair rail and crown moulding exhibit the architectural details of a bygone era.
 The first floor offers a living room with a fireplace, kitchen with a fireplace, master bedroom with a private bath, utility room, office and a sunroom with a fireplace.
Two bedrooms and a bath complete the second floor.
 
The home is of frame construction with a slate roof and three chimneys. There are two older log and frame barns plus a stone pump house and root cellar adding to the antiquity.
of the property.
 Enhancing the appeal is the lake adjacent to the home.
 The home and buildings are 1000' down a winding drive through beautiful timber. Part of hardwoods are being cut and some select cut, but none around the house.   Other appealing features are the approximate 1 mile of road frontage and several streams. It also has about 20 acres of open land for your animals or crops.This estate was part of an English land patent dated July 20, 1738 of 2,500 acres granted to Joseph Dabbs and Thomas Walker. These men were sub-sheriffs of Goochland County. In this role they were paid for carrying out the ancient and gruesome practice of hanging and quartering people convicted of a crime. It was also the site of the Wayside School, one of the many one-room school houses that were in operation in Cumberland Co. in the late 1800's. Pictured below are two students in front of the school, Easter Sunday 1906. The school was later moved to the site of Hamilton High School in the 1930's, where it remains today.
This unique estate is located in Cumberland Co., VA about 45 minutes from Richmond and Charlottesville and only 30 minutes to Farmville. The village of Cumberland is only 15 minutes away. It offers the privacy of a large estate but convenient to city amenities.
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