. Historic Virginia homes and churches . t open house, and lib-erally dispensed old-fashioned Southern hospitality there,for years. Some time after the death of Colonel Bullock, KICHMOXD AM) THE L ITER JAMES 183 Governor John Kiithcrfoord houj^lit tlie estate as a sum-mer home, and it finally l)eeame the residenee of his son,yir. Jolm Coles Ruthertoord, of Richmond, who modern-ized the front of the house. However, the (juaint archi-tectural featiues of the Colonial period may still he seenat the rear. Durinji the Revolution, Rock Castle was visited hy araiding party under General Tarleton, who
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . t open house, and lib-erally dispensed old-fashioned Southern hospitality there,for years. Some time after the death of Colonel Bullock, KICHMOXD AM) THE L ITER JAMES 183 Governor John Kiithcrfoord houj^lit tlie estate as a sum-mer home, and it finally l)eeame the residenee of his son,yir. Jolm Coles Ruthertoord, of Richmond, who modern-ized the front of the house. However, the (juaint archi-tectural featiues of the Colonial period may still he seenat the rear. Durinji the Revolution, Rock Castle was visited hy araiding party under General Tarleton, who angrily cutdown and hore away the coat-of-arms of Tarleton (juar-tered witli Fleming from the wall of the panelled parlor. Years later, during the raid around Richmond, a partyof Sheridans soldiers sacked the house and were onlyprevented from tiring it hy the entreaties of the faithfulcolored servants. Rock Castle is now the property of the distinguishedsurgeon. Dr. (ieo. Ren Johnston, whose wife is a daughterof Jolm Coles ROLLING HALL, GOOCHLAND COINTV BOLLIXG HALL From the early eighteenth century the Boilings ofCohl)s, in Chesterfield County, owned much land inGoochland, and various memhers of the family made theirhomes in that county at times. Rut the first to abandonthe original homestead and settle permanently in Gooch- 18i VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES laiui was Colonel William Boiling, of Boiling Hall, amilitia oflicrr in tlif \Var of 1812, and a man of prominencein liis community. He was a philanthropist as well as asoldier, and after removing to Boiling Hall established athis old home. Cohbs, the first institution for the educationof deaf mutes in America. Upon the walls of Boiling Hall long hung one of themost complete collections of family portraits in the Stateof \ii-ginia. In it was represented every generation ofBoilings from Robert, the emigrant, down. It is now theproperty of I\Ir. Richard Boiling, of Richmond, who hasloaned it to the Virginia Hist
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