. Historic Virginia homes and churches . shington Lewis. Charming, also, is the portrait of Colonel CharlesCarter, in wig and scarlet coat embellished with many giltbuttons, which still hangs at Cleve, though the estate hasbeen so long out of the Carter famliy. BARNSFIELD Before the day of railroads, one of the most notedplaces on the route. North and South, was Hooes Ferryover the Potomac. In King George County, close to theferry and close to the broad river, is Barnsfield, where, since 348 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES 1715, the Hooes have had a home. But few famihes m^iro•inia, and, indeed, h
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . shington Lewis. Charming, also, is the portrait of Colonel CharlesCarter, in wig and scarlet coat embellished with many giltbuttons, which still hangs at Cleve, though the estate hasbeen so long out of the Carter famliy. BARNSFIELD Before the day of railroads, one of the most notedplaces on the route. North and South, was Hooes Ferryover the Potomac. In King George County, close to theferry and close to the broad river, is Barnsfield, where, since 348 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES 1715, the Hooes have had a home. But few famihes m^iro•inia, and, indeed, hut few in Anieriea, can trace solong a line in male descent in this country, for since RiceHooe came to Virginia, in 1621. his descendants havebeen large land owners and prominent socially and inmilitary and civil affairs. During the War between the States, the old house wasthe residence of Dr. A. B. Hooe. Hooes Ferry was afavorite place for blockade-runners from INIaryland to Vir-ginia, and the Federal troops burned Barnsfield on the. BARNSFIELD, KIN(, (;Kii1{(;E COUNTY ground, as they charged, that the blockade-runners wereguided by signal lights from its windows. The quaint picture, made many years ago, shows a typi-cal Virginia farm-house, a part probably built as early as1715, which was extended by rambling wings and additions ^ Hayden, Virginia Genealogies, pp. 716-719, and VirginiaMagazin£ of History and Biography, iv, pp. 4-27—129. THE RAPPAHANNOCK AND POTOMAC 349 as the needs of the family increased. The row of L()nil)ardypophus close to the edge of the hluft, the weeping willows,the negroes working on boats or cutting driftwood uniteto form a picture which could he du])licatcd many timesalong oiu rivers. The house was not a stately mansion but a roomy old farm-house which was of much morefamiliar type. CHATHAM Upon a green hill in Stafford County, just across theRappahannock from Fredericksburg, stands Chatham,looking upon the old town and a long way up and down
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