. Historic Virginia homes and churches . OLD STONE CHURCH, AUGUSTA COUNTY BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS 447 OLD STONE CHURCH About einjht miles from Staunton is the Old StoneChurch, one of the earliest and perhaps the most interest-ing of the Presbyterian churches in \^irginia. It wasbuilt in 17^7, and was formerly siurounded l)y a ditch andpalisade, making of it a fort for protection against theIndians. The old house has seen generations pass; it hasheard the sermons of the Virginia Synod in its youthfuldays. Here the famous Waddell Avas taken under careof Hanover Presbj^tery as a candidate for the mi
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . OLD STONE CHURCH, AUGUSTA COUNTY BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS 447 OLD STONE CHURCH About einjht miles from Staunton is the Old StoneChurch, one of the earliest and perhaps the most interest-ing of the Presbyterian churches in \^irginia. It wasbuilt in 17^7, and was formerly siurounded l)y a ditch andpalisade, making of it a fort for protection against theIndians. The old house has seen generations pass; it hasheard the sermons of the Virginia Synod in its youthfuldays. Here the famous Waddell Avas taken under careof Hanover Presbj^tery as a candidate for the ministryin 1760; here the venerated Iloge was licensed in 1781;here the Rev. Archibald Alexander passed some of histrials in preparation for the GREENWAY COURT, CLAHKi: ( (ll NTY GREENWAY COURT, THE HOME OFLORD FAIRFAX The greatest landed estate ever held in Virginia wasthe famous Northern Neck owned successively by theLords Culpeper and Fairfax. How Thomas, Lord Fair-fax, left his English home to come and live at GreenwayCourt in the midst of his princelj estate, within the presentClarke County, is a familiar story. The Greenway Courtmansion where Washington often visited during his youth 448 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES has loiifi- since gone, but Ijord Fairfaxs land office wlieregrants for land within his domain were made, and the White Post, one of his landmarks, which has given itsname to a village of the vicinity, still remain. SPRINGDALE Ujjon the Opequon River, in Frederick County, sixmiles south of Winchester, lies Springdale, one of theoldest jjlantations in the Shenandoah Valley. Upon itto-day stand the j^icturesque ruin of a plain, but sturdyold stone house and a more ambitious structure of thesame material, with do
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