. Historic Virginia homes and churches . tline of the Blue RidgejMountains in the background. It was built prior to theWar between the States by ]Mr. D. J. Hartsook, who, in1887, sold it to Mr. E. O. Nolting, of Richmond, Virginia,the father of its jjresent owner. In style of architecture the main house, built of brick,with columns in front of its wide porch, and with two offices, one on either side to correspond, resembles manyof the ante-bellum country homes in Piedmont, Virginia,showing in its design the impress of Jeff ersonian infiuence. During the devastating raids of General Sheridan, M
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . tline of the Blue RidgejMountains in the background. It was built prior to theWar between the States by ]Mr. D. J. Hartsook, who, in1887, sold it to Mr. E. O. Nolting, of Richmond, Virginia,the father of its jjresent owner. In style of architecture the main house, built of brick,with columns in front of its wide porch, and with two offices, one on either side to correspond, resembles manyof the ante-bellum country homes in Piedmont, Virginia,showing in its design the impress of Jeff ersonian infiuence. During the devastating raids of General Sheridan, Monticola was occupied by him as headquarters. Alarge square cut in the flooring of an upjjer bedroom marks pip:dmont and the south side 413 the place where vahiahles were hid at that time to savethem from pilhige. The phiiitation itself dates back to Revolutionary times,as evidenced by a strip of road near tlie liouse said to havebeen surveyed by General Washin^ton himself, and eon-stitutino a part of the Post Road connecting Lyncliburg. with Richmond, other links of which appear in the inter-vening counties. The original residence, still standing on this estate, wasbuilt by a 3Ir. Fowle in Colonial days, its hand-wroughtnails, glazed bricks and hand-carved mantels testifying tothis fact, and tradition has it that General Washingtonlodged there. ENNISCORTHY John Coles I came from Ireland to Virginia duiingthe eighteenth century. He was an early settler in Rich-mond Town and, tradition has it, built one of the firsthouses there. He was senior warden of the parish, anddving in Richmond in 1747 was buried in the chancel of 414 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES old St. Johns Church. WiHiani Coles, a younger biotherof John, and the grandfather of Dolly Madison, fol-lowed his brother to Airginia and settled in HanoverCounty, where he built Coles Hill. John Coles I was a man of ample means and owningan estate in what is now Albemarle Count} (then Gooch-land), on the Green jVIountain, built
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