. Historic Virginia homes and churches . OUNTY house, a barn, stables, and other outbuildings; but manjyears ago coal pits were sunk practically all around thehouse, and tunnels, or drifts as they were called, run be-neath the groimds, and, it is said, beneath the house itself. Coal was mined at ^Midlothian as early as 1730 andfor miles around may be seen the remains of the pits ownedand operated by the Wooldridges, CTarkes, Cunliffes andother Chesterfield families. After the time of the Heths, Black Heath was occu-pied bv ^Iv. GifFord, an Englishman, and later bv thefamily of Colonel William
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . OUNTY house, a barn, stables, and other outbuildings; but manjyears ago coal pits were sunk practically all around thehouse, and tunnels, or drifts as they were called, run be-neath the groimds, and, it is said, beneath the house itself. Coal was mined at ^Midlothian as early as 1730 andfor miles around may be seen the remains of the pits ownedand operated by the Wooldridges, CTarkes, Cunliffes andother Chesterfield families. After the time of the Heths, Black Heath was occu-pied bv ^Iv. GifFord, an Englishman, and later bv thefamily of Colonel William B. 162 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES CIIESTKRFIKLU COURT HOUSE Clusttifuld Court Ildusf was built in 17-19-50 and was(.idcrcd 1)V the County Court to be a eopy of the thenHenrico Court House. In 1779 Hamilton, the Britishgovernor of Detroit, who had been captured by G. , was confined here for a time. In 1781 theBritish forces under (ieneral Phillips bin-ned the CourtHouse, but its substantial walls remained intact, and when. CHESTERFIELD COLRT HOUSE the house was restored it must have been made like it wasat first. Many celebrated trials have been held. here. Atthe rear there is a wing (not shown in the picture) almostas large as the front part of the house. SALISBURY A few days after the election of Patrick Henry asgovernor of Virginia, in November, 1784, he left the capitalin order to arrange his affairs in Henry Comity and re-moved his family to a farm called Salisbmy, in Chesterfield RICHMOND AM) TIIK lIlKIt JAMKS IC^ County, near Kirliiiioiid. The house eliosen hy tlie Ianiouspatriot as a residenee durin/^ his term as governor was nopalace or mansion, hut a eliarmin<^ly (juaint, frame home-stead, with l)i-. hriht, airy rooms, only a story and a halfhiprh. which had heen huilt some time durin- the cifrhtecTithcentury l)y the Randolphs, as a hunting lod^e. (iovernorHenry rented it from Thomas Mann Randolph. Salishury is only fourteen miles from Itichmond andb
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