10-508: Greenway Court is a historic country estate near White Post in rural Clarke County, Virginia . The property is the site of the seat of the vast 18th-century land empire of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781), the only ennobled British colonial proprietor to live in one of the North American colonies. The surviving remnants of his complex — a later replacement brick house and Fairfax's stone land office — were designated
20-499: A National Historic Landmark in 1960. Greenway Court is located down a long private drive on the west side of White Post Road, south of the village of White Post. The property now consists of about 5 acres (2.0 ha), although it was in the 18th century at the center of landholdings over 5 million acres (20,000 km). Its principal feature is a brick farmhouse built in 1828, the original plantation house having been demolished c. 1834. The main historic structure surviving from
30-406: A surveyor. Abandoned, the roof of the main house at Greenway Court collapsed in 1834, after which the structure was pulled down. A visit to this estate is the subject of " A Night at Greenway Court ," an 1896 short story by Willa Cather . Greenway Court is used as a name to describe the unincorporated community in which the former estate is located. White Post, Virginia White Post
40-499: A tradition currently inscribed on a bronze plaque affixed to the post, then Col. George Washington set the original post to guide travelers to Lord Fairfax's residence. Greenway Court plantation was unusual in that Lord Fairfax was titled and residing in the colony. Ethnic German and Scots-Irish subsistence farmers, many of them recent immigrants , settled in the area, as well as the Meade, Randolph and Burwell families, which were among
50-585: Is a two-story, nearly square, brick dwelling with a hipped roof in the Greek Revival style. The front facade features a full-height, three-bay, pedimented portico with monumental Greek Ionic order columns. Also on the property is a contributing brick slave's quarters. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. This article about a property in Clarke County, Virginia on
60-516: Is an unincorporated community in Clarke County, Virginia . White Post is located at the crossroads of White Post Road and Berrys Ferry Road off Lord Fairfax Highway ( U.S. Route 340 ). In the 1730s, Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781), the major landowner in the lower Shenandoah Valley through an inheritance from his mother Catherine Culpeper, Lady Fairfax, settled here and built his " Greenway Court " manor home. According to
70-556: The First Families of Virginia . Although the original Anglican church for the community was at Old Chapel several miles away, by the late 19th century, Meade Memorial Church (Episcopal), a Methodist church and Masonic Lodge were all established near the intersection that gave the community its name. In addition to Greenway Court, the Bethel Memorial Church , Farnley , Guilford , Lucky Hit , Meadea , The Tuleyries , and
80-472: The White Post Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . This Clarke County, Virginia state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Guilford (White Post, Virginia) Guilford is a historic plantation house and a farm located near White Post , Clarke County, Virginia . It was built between 1812 and 1820, and
90-493: The Greenway Court estate in 1747, intending it to be a much larger establishment than it became. The main house was a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story timber structure with long sloping roofs and corbelled brick chimneys. It was originally intended to house the land steward, but Fairfax occupied it with his nephew, Thomas Bryan Martin , until he died in 1781. Fairfax employed a young George Washington on his extensive land holdings as
100-583: The period of the Fairfax residency is the Land Office, a c. 1762 single-story gable-roofed limestone structure, and a timber smokehouse dating to the 18th century. Greenway Court was the center of the " Northern Neck Proprietary " or " Fairfax Grant ", which passed to Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron from his mother's family, the Culpepers, who had taken proprietorship of the land in 1673. Fairfax laid out
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