. Historic Virginia homes and churches . nshine, but to the gentlemistress of Flower de Hundred, along with her agedmother and a few faithful servants, the picture had a reverseside. She watched the landing at Windmill Point, the IIAMlTOX ROADS AND LOWER JAMKS 77 tranipiny- through lu-i- .staiidiii^- coi-ii, tlit- bivouac al)()utlier house, tlic place .swarming- with sokliers and coveredwith tents, batteries, horses and wagons, and wlien tlievwent away there were floors toi-n up and mahogany hackedto pieces, and marble hearths broken to bits and tiie memoryof one trooper disappearin^- up the r
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . nshine, but to the gentlemistress of Flower de Hundred, along with her agedmother and a few faithful servants, the picture had a reverseside. She watched the landing at Windmill Point, the IIAMlTOX ROADS AND LOWER JAMKS 77 tranipiny- through lu-i- .staiidiii^- coi-ii, tlit- bivouac al)()utlier house, tlic place .swarming- with sokliers and coveredwith tents, batteries, horses and wagons, and wlien tlievwent away there were floors toi-n up and mahogany hackedto pieces, and marble hearths broken to bits and tiie memoryof one trooper disappearin^- up the road decked in thebridal veil and orange blossoms of a newly mariied daugh-ter of the house. Long afterward the broken marl)le wasgathered up as a sacred relic and l)ecame a hearth again—this time a mosaic. The Flower de Hundred plantation has undergone asmany changes of size and shape as of ownership. It con-tains at present upward of a thousand acres. This interesting old homestead has been made tlie sceneof three published \li:U( IIAM - Hiiii ( HI i;( H, PRINCE GEORGE COUNTS MERCHANTS HOPE CHURCH Not many miles from Flower de Hundred, in the samecounty—Prince George—stands, within a beautiful grove,the quaint old brick churcli known as Merchants ILipe, 7S VIRCIXIA HOMES AND CHURCHES which took its name from a plantation estahlished at a veryearly date by some London merchants. It is snpposed tohave been built in 1057, as that ilate was found upontimbers inside the roof. This church, sixty feet lon<^- and twenty-six feet wide,is still in a fair state of preservation—the pulpit andchancel furniture destroyed during the War between theStates having been replaced by new ones. The originallloor of stone flagging is still there, as is the ponderousBible printed in 1625. Not far from the church, on tlie same side of the river,is Jordans Point, which was so long the plantation andiiome of the distinguished family of Bland. The old man-sion house disapjieared lon
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